Article by Bill Murphy Jr. CREDIT: Getty Images Amazon just announced how it’s changing Whole Foods–and at the same time provided our latest answer to the question: Just how powerful is Amazon, anyway? Because we already knew it’s powerful enough to dominate 43 percent of all online commerce, and powerful enough to basically acquire Whole Foods for free, since Amazon’s stock jump after the original announcement was more than the Whole Foods purchase price.… Read more

New AWS software could help companies move on-premises applications to the public cloud. The initial product stemming from the AWS-VMware partnership could be delayed. Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services and Infrastructure. Amazon Web Services is thinking about building software for corporate data centers as part of its recently formed partnership with VMware, according to a report on Monday.… Read more

When I start playing Amazon AWS, one of thing struggling me is the service name introduced by Amazon. As the old-school system admin, I think this infographic may help someone like me to understand the aws services better. Compute EC2 👉 Virtual Private Server EC2 Container Service 👉 Docker Management Lightsail 👉 Similar to DigitalOcean Elastic Beanstalk 👉 Similar to Heroku Lambda 👉 Functions as a service Batch 👉 Run batch job on VPS Storage S3 👉 Similar to Dropbox EFS 👉 Network Attached Storage Glacier 👉 Long-term backup Storage Gateway 👉 Connecting Cloud Storage Database DynamoDB 👉 Relational Databases Service DynamoDB 👉 NoSQL Database Service ElastiCache 👉 Memcached & Redis Service Redshift 👉 Data Warehousing Networking & Content Delivery VPC 👉 Virtual Network CloudFront 👉 Content Delivery Network Direct Connect 👉 Connecting Cloud Network Route 53 👉 Similar to GoDaddy Migration Application Discovery Service 👉 Collect Application Info DMS 👉 Cross Database Migration Server Migration 👉 Migrate Server to Cloud Snowball 👉 Petabyte Data Transfer Developer Tools CodeCommit 👉 Similar to GitHub CodeBuild 👉 Managed Build Service CodeDeploy 👉 Similar to Heroku CodePipeline 👉 Similar to CircleCI X-Ray 👉 Similar to New Relic Management Tools CloudWatch 👉 Similar to New Nagios CloudFormation 👉 Infrastructure as Code CloudTrail 👉 Logging aws user activities Config 👉 Monitor AWS resource config OpsWorks 👉 Configurations as Code Service Catalog 👉 Preset AWS Service Trusted Advisor 👉 Give advise for your AWS Managed Services 👉 Managed AWS Services Security, Identity & Compliance IAM 👉 Users, Keys & Certs Inspector 👉 Security Assessment Certificate 👉 Free Certificate Directory Service 👉 Managed Microsoft AD WAF & Shield 👉 Defence web exploits & DDoS AWS Artifact 👉 Compliance Reports Analytics Athena 👉 Analyze PB of data in S3 EMR 👉 Managed Hadoop Framework CloudSearch 👉 Similar to ElasticSearch Elasticsearch Service 👉 Managed ElasticSearch Kinesis 👉 Similar to Kafka Data Pipeline 👉 ETL from elsewhere in AWS QuickSight 👉 Business Analytics Service Artificial Intelligence Lex 👉 Conversational Interfaces Polly 👉 Text to Speech Rekognition 👉 Image Recognition Machine Learning 👉 Predict from existing data Internet Of Things AWS Iot 👉 Connect devices to AWS Contact Center Amazon Connect 👉 Connect Center Service Game Development Amazon GameLift 👉 Managed Game Servers Mobile Services Mobile Hub 👉 Mobile Apps Platform Cognito 👉 Similar to Auth0 Device Farm 👉 Testing app in real mobiles Mobile Analytics 👉 Similar to Flurry Pinpoint 👉 Targeted Push Notification Application Services Step Functions 👉 Build app via visual workflow SWF 👉 Similar to Iron.io API Gateway 👉 Similar to 3Scale Elastic Transcoder👉 Video transcoding in AWS Messaging Simple Queue Service 👉 Similar to Sidekiq Simple Notification Service 👉 Push Notification Service SES 👉 Similar to MailChimp Business Productivity WorkDocs 👉 Similar to Google Docs WorkMail 👉 Google Apps for Domains Amazon Chime 👉 Similar to Skype Desktop & App Streaming Amazon WorkSpaces 👉 Desktop as a Service AppStream 2.0 👉 Similar to citrix Looking for managed AWS cloud services?… Read more

The view from the Amazon Web Services building, in downtown Seattle. THE RUMORS ARE true. Amazon is providing cloud services to the CIA. But what’s most intriguing about the multi-million-dollar deal is not what Amazon is doing, but how the company is doing it – and what that means for the future of that thing called cloud computing.… Read more

As the world’s biggest online retailer, Amazon wants a benevolent image to encourage trust from customers. Obtaining vast quantities of their personal information has been central to the firm’s business model. But Amazon is diversifying — and a few months ago the company signed a $600 million contract with the Central Intelligence Agency to provide “cloud computing” services.… Read more