Amazon lands a major AWS client; Ancestry.com

Amazon Web Services is a Cloud Leader in Cloud Computing Business and thus they are attracting multi-dollar businesses clients that have moved their data centers to AWS. Netflix, Twilio, Zillow Nordstrom, Jupiter Networks, Splunk, Hertz, Gamestop, and Intuit are the major Retail and Tech clients who have joined Amazon Web Services. Amazon gains one more major client which is Ancestry.com who manages 10 petabytes of structured and unstructured data and it generates more than 2.6 million subscribers with 20 billion historical records. On average basis there are more than 75 million searches are handled every day.

Amazon Web Services has now more powerful tool for the security platform through Vaultive

Vaultive is an innovator in cloud data security and today it announced that they have introduced a new set of cloud security and government capabilities for AWS. Vaultive Cloud Security Platform will be having abilities of new advanced account management and a new set of auditing capabilities for the Amazon Web Services administration console which will give the IT Teams a complete control over their infrastructure as a service. AWS is always improving their security measures in their cloud computing service so that their customers can enjoy more services without any worry of a security concern.

Amazon Web Services is going to take your business sky high

Amazon Web Services is the cloud leader in the cloud computing services. Many companies are benefitting from AWS cloud computing service and have made them more potentially successful. AWS is launching its service in the UK in London’s Excel for AWS Summit. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said that the AWS has changed the face of the IT sector. He said that AWS gives you superpowers; in short, he says that AWS services will give you the power to restructure your business into being a successful one. Before the software developers use to tell you how to develop your software but now AWS straight away gives you a toolbox to restructure your own software.

Tips to optimize Amazon EC2 Cost

In Amazon Web Service Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) is the centerpiece of AWS. EC2 is widely used by many cloud-based customers as infrastructure as a service. Elastic Cloud Computing provides a variety of cloud computing services which is the most powerful tool in Amazon Web Services. But on the other hand, it is very difficult for the beginners to use the system and understand the service provided by the Elastic Cloud Computing which will ultimately lead to more expenditure on the infrastructure of the service. In this article, I will be giving you tips on how to optimize Amazon Web Service EC2 Cost. So this article generally will be for the targeted customers whose bill is exceeding monthly from $10000 to $200000. But you can still read the whole article to understand the Amazon EC2 pricing method.

By learning the complexity of this article it is better that you don’t waste your time and money if your monthly bill is less than $10000. But for people whose bill is exceeding $200000 then it is suggested that you hire a DevOps engineer to handle your Amazon EC2 instances and cost.

1.    Figure if Amazon EC2 is the right choice for you:-

Amazon EC2 is not at all a cheapest mean of cloud computing because compare to the other virtual private server Amazon is much more expensive. You have to pay 9 cents for per GB transfer which will be $90/TB where on the other hand many Virtual Private Servers are cheaper than Amazon Web Services by subscribing to the monthly plans for $5 to $10 per month. But still, Amazon being expensive you will be getting added advantage of a flexibility and scalable infrastructure that can adapt to your changes. It has the ability to deploy instances and can make changes to the architecture programmatically.

2.    Understand the instances on Amazon EC2:-

There are three parts where a letter is illustrating the instance class (R,M,C,T,G,D,I,P,X) and a number depicting the generation (1,2,3,4,5) and a string is illustrating the size, instance class and generation (small, medium, large, x large, 2xlarge, 4xlarge, 8xlarge, 10xlarge, 16xlarge, 32xlarge). For example, instance “r3.4xlarge” is instance type R of generation 3 and size 4xlarge.

3.    Understand the requirement of the application:-

You will need the necessary application to run and measure Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing.

4.    AWS region may affect the pricing:-

AWS regions are the data centers nearby Amazon Web Services. In the United States, there are a lot of regions so the costing will differ, unlike countries which have few AWS centers located. The round trip in AWS region is approximately 2 milliseconds.

5.    Elastic Block Storage affects cost:-

The cost of the Elastic Block Storage instance may depend on the size when creating the volume. It is also charged for the I/O. In EBS, I/O is charged only when it occurs. Elastic Blockage Storage can affect your cost consequential.

6.    Elastic Block Storage Snapshots:-

EBS Snapshots is storage of the snapshots of the current content of Elastic Block storage to S3. EBS snapshots are available throughout the AWS region. But while transferring the data for cross-region data transfer charges will apply.

7.    Demand Instances:-

Demand instance is a very expensive instance but is very easy to get started with. It can be stopped or you can start at any time and you will be not charged when it is stopped.

8.    Spot Instances:-

Spot instances are relatively is less expensive but the major drawback is that you can’t stop it, you have to terminate it.

9.    Purchasing options:-

You can find a lot of options before selecting the purchase options. You can make a reservation for 1 to 3 years with three types of payment which is no upfront, partial upfront and all upfront. You can choose which type of instance you want and the size within the instance class and generation.

10.    Work on the instances via independent architecture:-

While writing use tools like Ansible or Chef which will allow you with a single command to deploy new instances for your applications. Your script should be flexible so it can be deployed in both on-demand and spot instances. You can use Elastic Load balancer if you are handling variable loads from real-time web traffic. Auto-scaling can help you to scale up instance capacity in real time. For a long time data use S3 instead of Elastic Cloud computing instances. The script that you upload should handle the updates smoothly. When there is a large number of an error, unusual traffic patterns or few healthy hosts then it is recommended to set alarms for the load balancers. Also, use Route 53 for health checks and failovers for cross-region repetition in live serving.

11.    Billing Cycle:-

You will be billed by an hour from the time you have started using it. So for an example if you use only for 15 minutes then you will be charged for an hour but if you used it for 1 hr and 10 minutes only then still you will be charged for 2 hrs. If they are two instances when they will be calculated separately and if the instance is stopped and you have restarted the instance 4 times then you will be charged for the 4 hrs. But if the Amazon has terminated the instance then you will be not charged for that particular hour.

Measure your Amazon EC2 cost in the Amazon EC2 console under Reports section. When you will keep a thorough check of your cost then you will have an idea on how to optimize your Elastic Cloud Computing Cost. In Amazon Web Service account you can access the billing data which will give you the full breakdown of the cost. Amazon cloud watch you can set a billing alert where the data will come as a data points. While purchasing, it is better that you carefully decide while selecting the plan depending on the size of your traffic, availability zone, instance class, instance type and purchase option. If your data storage is a long time commitment then do a reservation on all your instances or choose spot instances.

Amazon Web Services in Canada is getting developed rapidly

Head of Amazon Web Service in Canada and Latin America, Jeffrey Kratz, said that they will listen to their customers so that to continue investing in Canada. Amazon is hiring a lot of employees and will be expanding the profitable data center in the north of the border. Amazon and Alphabet Inc have stepped in the competition in Canada’s cloud services and meeting the demand for the increase of the local servers. Amazon’s Web Service sales have been increased 55 % more in 2016 while the profits are getting tripled. Amazon Web Services are establishing their data centers especially in the area where there is more potential for cloud computing services.  

Tips to easily optimize Amazon S3 cost

Amazon Web Services is the lead market in this Cloud Computing Business Thus this proves that their service is very efficient and reliable. AWS is used by many people who want to manage their backend, data and websites. Companies like Snapchat, Pinterest, Dropbox and many other companies are shifting their data to cloud computing so that they can focus more on their core functioning of their business.

The following are the tip to easily optimize Amazon S3 cost:-

1.    First understand and learn the uses of S3 are:-

You can store entire static website or images files for live serving on websites. Data storage can be stored for a long time in the Cloud data center and it is very cost effective.

2.    How S3 affects cost:-

In this you will understand how S3 can affect your cost.

a)    Pricing for the Retrieval:-

This will apply to your IA and Glacier storage. It will cost per GB for the data that has been retrieved.

b)    Cost of the Storage:-

You don’t have to pay a collective of an amount for the storage. But you have to pay for the storage that you have used. The cost fluctuates from one region to another but it is a fixed cost.

c)    Request Price:-

For per request, you will have to pay $0.005 in US and in Sao Paulo, it's $0.007 per 1000 request. So the pricing is different according to the region.

d)    Cost for Data Transfer:-

The cost may differ from region to region but if you are in AWS region then the cost will be zero.

3.    Central Role played by buckets:-

A)    Under your account, you can create a bucket where you store data in it or under it. There is no use of creating the file that you will be saving which at the end will be deleted.

B)    You can interact with S3 files in different ways:-

Deployment tools Chef and Ansible offers modules to operate S3 resources. You can also download and upload files instantly by logging in via the browser.

4.    First compress and zip your files where it’s necessary:-

It is better to zip your files so that you can save up your cost in storing the file and it is also easier to upload or download the file. You can not only save your cost in storage but also in transferring the file.

5.    There are four types of storage in S3 storage:-

Standard storage is the most expensive storage and it is designed for 99.99999999% durability and it is also cheapest and fastest for making changes in the data. Reduced Redundancy Storage is 20% cheaper than standard storage but in December 2016 price reduction in RRS was not applied so it is expensive or equal to the price of standard storage. Glacier is the most inexpensive storage in Amazon Web Services.

The files in the Glacier has 90 days storage period and the files that are deleted are charged on the remainder 90 days upon the deleted files.

6.    Understand how the cost is growing:-

When you constantly update your file then that may increase the storage cost. If you are generating data constantly then that also increase your storage cost.

7.    Is storing Older Version of your data your objective:-

The older version of the data which is not included in the list may get charged.

8.    Set your lifecycle policies of the data:-

There are policies that can optimize your S3 cost by setting policy to automatically delete your data if it is old than the days set. But you have to keep the data for some time because of the data retention laws and policies. You can convert your data from standard storage to Glacier which will save up your cost but if you are planning to delete the data then moving to the Glacier will be not a Good idea.

9.    First get a demo:-

Storing data without any consultation may or may not increase the cost of storage in S3. You can estimate to determine the right storage class for you with the size of your file, expected number of access, retention period and the waiting period. By ascertaining the details about your file and storage you can know the cost of each storage class.

10.     Cost depending type of the file:-

File storage up to 1 GB to 10 GB will cost you 2.3 cents to 40.5 cents for a monthly storage. But if the storage file is more than that then it can shoot up to $200 to $5000, therefore, zipping or compressing files can help in reducing the cost. Dropbox before moving the file to its own servers, the cost for 500 petabytes was coming up to 10.5 million per month. But after compressing the files and getting heavy discounts still the bill must be coming up to thousands of dollars in a month.

11.    Setting regions selection for optimizing the data:-

Data transfer cost can be optimized by using the best region location for a transferring data. For an example, if the user requests for a page then the nearest CDN edge location will check the updated copy if it is not found then it will fetch information from S3 and deliver it. This will increase the speed and higher availability of the information receiving and sending. Check if the data transfer cost is applicable for you and then according to that adjust your data center cost.

12.    Monitor your Billing payment of S3 cost:-

While checking your bill that you have been accrued from the S3 cost, you can get an entire split up of your bill where you can come to know which part of the area you getting billed the most.

Always keep a track of your data therefore always keep on measuring your data cost every month so that you can optimize your data. Don’t use S3 if you have to frequent write or reading of data because that may increase your cost very high.

Amazon Web Service is now being launched in Hong Kong next year

Amazon Web Services launched its service in Asia Pacific region, first in Singapore in 2010. The AWS then expanded to India, Japan, Australia, China, and Korea. When AWS will be launched in Hong Kong, there will be 19 availability zones in Asia Pacific. This will help the business be cost effective, expansion of geographic presence, accelerate innovation and growth. AWS launching in Asia Pacific is going to help Asia-Pacific region customers to develop their business and also their economy.

Amazon Web Services is across 43 availability zones all around the world where 16 technology infrastructure regions are worldwide. AWS has also 21 Edge Network locations in Asia Pacific.

Amazon is coming up with its own translation Service

Amazon has come up with the new translation Service that can boost the AWS revenue in the future. Amazon Web Services delivers more than 70 services and have earned revenue $3.7 billion in the first quarter. The translation service can help the artificial intelligence device to be available throughout the world. Safaba was a start-up translation device which is now acquired by the Amazon and now AWS has launched the translation service after 2 years. Co-founder of Safaba, Alon Lavie, leads the Amazon’s translation development and research group in Pittsburgh.

Google and Microsoft have its own translation service and Facebook also own's a translation service for the app.

Amazon Web Services storage is now expanded to run on Microsoft Hyper-V

Amazon Web Services have now expanded the file gateway on Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 which also already added on Amazon EC2 and VMware. You can retrieve and store on Amazon S3 objects via a standardised file storage protocols with the help of file gateway. File gateway will secure the existing applications and devices to secure and can use durable cloud without a need to be modified.

Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) can now be downloaded for images for file gateway when you will be creating a new gateway in the Amazon Web Services Storage Gateway.

Amazon Web Services Launches Green grass software to increase the performance

Amazon Web Services has launched Green Grass software that will enhance the ability of cloud computing for Internet of things devices. With the help of Green Grass software, it will easier to run and use IoT application. AWS Lambda and IoT is getting embedded in the connected devices where AWS Green grass will give the flexibility in using the cloud services for storage, management and analytics.

Amazon Web Services Green Grass Software can give offline abilities which will give an added advantage for the devices to connect even if it is offline. A major example is Rio Tinto, which is using AWS Green grass Software for the issue in connectivity in harsh conditions.

Amazon Web Services joins Bahrain Technology Companies

Amazon Web Services is now joining Bahrain Technology Companies Society as the newest member of the Society. The President of BTECH, Mr Ubaidli Al-Ubaidli, welcomed Amazon Web Services and said that together they will enrich their objectives faster when they have more members. BTECH will be participating in preparing the regulations and policies regarding the field in Technology.

Mr Zubin Chagpar, the Head of Public Sector MENA Amazon Web Services, said that this partnership can help to strengthen the capability to support any organisation from start-ups to Government Institution. By Having Amazon Web Services in Bahrain will help to grow the companies and make it to the fastest growing start-ups.

Amazon gives a good comeback when Wal-Mart tells his suppliers to uninstall AWS cloud services

Wal-Mart had told his clients to uninstall Amazon Web Service for Cloud Computing. The spokesperson said that it didn’t want their personal confidential information in the hands of the competitor. But Amazon reverted back saying that AWS doesn’t work like that and Wal-Mart is trying to bully its customers in not availing Amazon Web Services. Many Suppliers are confronting Wal-Mart for telling them to not to use Amazon Web Services. Amazon has now struck a deal with Nike to sell their branded shoes directly and also launched Prime Wardrobe which will allow the customers to try on clothes for Seven days and can decide which one to buy.

Many customers are moving Computing workloads to Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services are generating many customers into AWS and customers are adapting to the cloud services because of AWS excellent services. Amazon is the big player in the market by earning a lot of revenue and also being the cloud leader.

A lot of services are provided by the AWS but Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud is a high-performance delivery model. It is had high-security measures, cost effective, high scalability, durability, high-speed and much more. Amazon has a huge application of customers ranging from snap chat to Airbnb and much more. There are a lot of customers success story where they have easily met their needs because of cloud computing.

Amazon Web Services has included Novetta Mission Analytics in the marketplace

Amazon Web Services have bought Novetta Mission analytics in the AWS marketplace where it provides big data analysis and visualisation facility to the customers with the click of a button. Novetta Mission Analytics is a visualisation web application and big data analytics with a variety of services provided. The service that they will provide is customer views, map relationships and identify targets between individual of interest. Novetta Mission Analytics already existed on the Amazon Web Service Cloud but it was only as managed service. It will enable rapid information disclosure for government customers and commercial alike.

The New Specialty Certification added on Amazon Web Services will improve your skills and knowledge

For people who are seeking to separate themselves from the IT crowd with the certification then this speciality certification provided by Amazon is the perfect opportunity for you. Now accessing to the new AWS Training and Certification Portal has become very easy to manage. Before it was difficult to access to the online certification and it was also a bit tricky to find the desired information because of the information provided on multiple websites.

AWS has three certification levels; associate, speciality and Professional. You can answer your exams by registering your details by paying $300 registration fee. Amazon Web Service certification can help you greatly further in your career.

Hyper-V file is added to Amazon to support its storage gateway

Microsoft is trying to regain its platform to be the cloud leader from cloud laggard. Azure is working well on Windows server 2016 but now AWS is offering a storage gateway file which can now work well on Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 and 2012. This will make S3 accessible intrinsically from a virtualised environment so this will make VMs read or write to S3, EBS snapshots and Glacier as if they are just another storage resource.

Amazon is doing so that many users can use it cloud storage service without any hassle. This shows that Amazon is taking their platform to the next level ahead than Azure Stack.

Amazon Web Services will open its new campus in Northern Virginia

Amazon Web Services are planning to open a new East Coast Campus in Northern Virginia where the same area that hosts its draping over the U.S. East data centre, announced the governor of Virginia.

This expansion in North Virginia will create 1500 new jobs but Amazon Web Services haven’t confirmed about the number of employees that they will be hiring but the locals are hoping for the same. Amazon Web Services already employs 7000 people in Northern Virginia where most of the people are local. It is going to be a data centre or just of an office space is not clear where an AWS representative declined to mention.

Amazon now planning to take over Call Centre’s Business

Amazon Web Services is developing a set of cloud-based tools to provide the enterprises with a service that can help them manage their call centres whereas they developed for its own retail call centres. But this may be a wake-up call for many people. The way is going to work is Alexa will be answering the questions on the phone or by a text message. It also comes to the knowledge that they will also employ Lex, a chatbot building service.

The Project is on the hold because CafeX has filed a federal trademark lawsuit against Amazon Web Services. CafeX provides an online conferencing and collaboration system which is also called Chime.

Microsoft claiming to take over Amazon in coming years

Microsoft is trying to take over Amazon Web Services by improving its strategy and performance. When Amazon had reported about having 43% revenue growth Meanwhile Microsoft on the same day reported back that they have 93% sales jump. Azure is working well for Microsoft and they are trying harder to become the cloud leader from cloud laggard. Amazon knows that Microsoft is a potential challenge, they are trying to improve their service. Microsoft has already passed AWS revenue by having $15.6 billion in the first quarter of 2017 whereas AWS revenue growth is $14.6 billion. Amazon Web Services are introducing new technology into their cloud business to attract more investors and customers.

Amazon Web Service will be creating jobs in Ontario

Amazon Web Services are creating Jobs in Ontario with the aim of helping the economy. Amazon has already given jobs to 600 people and it is planning to appoint more 200 people for the position which includes various platforms such as soft developers, engineers and programmers. Amazon Office was established in Ontario, 2015 and the centres are operating in Montreal. Wynne said, there are more than 2000 Ontarians working in Amazon. The office in Ontario will focus on the projects such as the suite of AWS infrastructure services, Amazon fulfilment Technologies and Development of the voice-controlled intelligent assistant Alexa. Amazon Web Services are going to provide a lot of job opportunities and development in Ontario.  

Gene Farrell and Amazon Web Services have resolved their Law Suit

Amazon Web Services have dropped their lawsuit against Gene Farrell because of the issue of leaving the company and joining the company of Amazon competitor currently in the market. Gene Farell was the Vice President of Amazon Web Services who then left Amazon for the Senior Vice President Role in Smartsheet.

Smartsheet Spokesperson revealed that the dispute between Amazon and Gene Farrell is settled on a temporary constraint on his role in Smartsheet with the agreement with Amazon. He also added that they are pleased to have him back on the team and continues to serve to grow our business and the customers.

Amazon Web Services will replace the traditional side Cache with New DAX for improved performance

AWS has introduced DAX 2 months ago which also known as DynamoDB database for a memory cache. DAX is going to improve the performance of the database queries by reading a lot of data and responding quickly. Tinder and Expedia are already using the preview version and Vogels is been identified as ad-tech will need such level of performance, According to AWS.

Vogels wrote in a post saying that DAX improves the performance of the speed where you can manage million of queries by delivering answers in Microseconds. The database is a huge competition among the big player in Cloud business which has heated up in 2017.

Wal-Mart is getting fury about Amazon taking over the Grocery Market

Amazon is taking over Whole Foods Market which will ultimately give a tough beat to Wal-Mart. Thus, Wal-Mart is telling their vendor’s and partners to give up the Amazon Web Services because they do not wish to place confidential information in the hands of their competitor. Amazon spokesperson said that Wal-Mart is bullying it vendors and it is not good for their customers and business. Amazon is setting targets to deliver foods on the day itself which will help the customers and the company grow. This step is going to give a boost to the cloud business because all the data will be stored in AWS so shopping and selling will become easier and cost-effective.

Amazon Web Services likely to come up with new technology according to the job posting

Amazon hasn’t gone public with the new technology ‘Mixed Reality’ but there is a hint that they will be introducing this in the future. It is for sure that Amazon Web Service is the leader in cloud computing business but it is also trying to come up with new technologies to be a Mogul in Technology business. The news about the Amazon coming up with Mixed Reality is not confirmed by the Amazon officials but according to the recent job posting, there is a hint that they are working on something new. The job posting needed people with gameplay and game engine skills so there is a possibility that Amazon will be coming up with a mixed reality in coming years.

AWS and AT&T cloud software is going to boost connectivity and Security Pact

AT&T and AWS are going to make connectivity and Security measure more efficient and durable. This upgrade to the system is going to increase the encryptions level when the data is sent over the public internet to the cloud system. AT&T is also going to provide incorporated product combining the virtual private network and Netbond for Cloud system for secure cloud connectivity to the Amazon Web Services Cloud.

According to Gartner, he described that it is necessary to introduce this technology for the companies who are using multiple clouds service. The upgrade to this system will create the availability of Cloud access security broker.

The Government is going to move to Cloud suggest President Trump

President Trump wants to move the Government to Cloud to improve the security protocol. In Federal IT environment is very challenging said Katell Thielemann, the vice president of research in Gartner Inc.’s Public Sector group. But the concept to shift the entire IT infrastructure to Cloud computing may not work because if you are flying weather satellites then the IT infrastructure needs to be upgraded which will not serve by a marketplace of SaaS solutions said, Thielemann.

In Washington Cloud spending according to Forrester Research Inc is going down this year. Federal Tech had spent 3.2% of what they reached $2.6 billion in 2016 but there has been a drop to $2.1 billion in 2017.

Adobe has come up in the market because of good sales strategy

Adobe has shown a continuous growth in their quarterly report where they have beat the analysts’ estimates for their sales and profit. Adobe had faced some stiff challenges when they moved to cloud-based subscription in 2017. But the company last year bought video advertising service Tube Mogul for estimation of $500 million and also had a deal with Microsoft to aid them to sell their marketing products.

Adobe’s share price have been raised from past 5 years to 350 percent which is a great hike and decent in the technology market. Analyst had estimated $1.73 billion for their second quarter but Adobe earned revenue to $1.77 billion with a climb of 27 percent. The Chief Financial Officer, Mark Garrett said that they had a great and strong strategic planning for the company to come up to this level.

Cloud and IoT Storage

Cloud Services are all about Data Storage and IoT will be an added advantage to increase the efficiency, affordable capacity and improve scalability. It is been estimated that IoT spending will come to $1.29 trillion in 2019. Whatever devices that are connected to IoT devices will be expecting the growth to shoot up by 2020.

IoT storage consumption will grow to 507.5ZB per year in 2019 meanwhile in 2014 the consumption was 134.5ZB. In IoT, the services are going to be very flexible and can adapt any sudden changes. There is going to improved storage security, Data Compatibility with a wide range of protocols, Real-time event processing and data insight, incorporate single plane of glass management, Vertical industry knowledge and experience and Connectivity to gateway interfaces for non-IP connected devices.

Microsoft will be playing the king in Cloud computing in coming years

The Share price of Microsoft is going to increase thus they are also going to earn a lot of revenue in coming years. Microsoft is also going to make money from cloud computing and Artificial Intelligence alike Amazon. 

Azure is a good cloud computing service compare to Amazon Web Services. Azure Cloud computing may add $110 billion market value for Microsoft in future.

Microsoft is progressing to come to the platform of being a leader in cloud computing business. Microsoft share price will be expected to hike in the coming year. 

Gartner Confirms AWS and Microsoft are the Current Cloud Leaders

Gartner has published magic graph where it showed Amazon Web Services and Microsoft in the Leader Domain but for Google is not such good news. Google is still in the visionary platform because Gartner feels that Google still has a lot of technical issues to solve and simplify the machine.

Alibaba is also in the visionary platform but Gartner said that it is not innovative because the cloud computing services are similar to the other competitors. Amazon Web Services is a very efficient so it can help the cool kids get hands on them easily. There is also other cloud computing business in the market such as Fujitsu, Rackspace, Century link, Skytap, Virtustream and much more.

Cloud computing expecting continuous growth in the business market

Amazon, Microsoft and Google are taking the lead in the Cloud Computing business; on the other hand, the rivals are seeking new specialisation into their cloud computing services to seek more efficiency.

Alibaba is leading their Cloud business in China but they are finding difficulties in leading their business in other countries because it is a China based company. Oracle, IBM, Dell technologies and many more companies are climbing the ladder to come to the leader’s platform.

The visionaries are continuously trying to improve their services and it is been observed that the Public clouds are expecting a growth from 16% to 46% by 2020. 

Microsoft may become the Leader in Cloud Computing in coming years surpassing Amazon

According to the Analyst, ‘Brent Bracelin’ forecasted the cloud market saying that Microsoft may take lead on Amazon because the revenue of the Microsoft Company is on the growth. Azure cloud has driven them 93% revenue growth which is the biggest sign of a real competition against other biggest players in the market.

 Amazon Web Service revenue has declined in seven quarters but the business revenue is growing from the second quarter by 9%. The investors are very optimist about their investment in Cloud computing. Microsoft is making money through software sales and their revenue recorded to $6.8 billion and the growth is continuous.

Managing Multi-cloud is not an easy task as how it seems

When you will be using cloud deployment, then there will be a need for the use of multiple clouds. If this is the case, then there will be also a need to make a budget for the cloud management software and the systems.

Multi-cloud is the combination of one or more cloud systems. Northern Widget is a good example of a multi-cloud system where they have to manage Amazon Web Services, Azure and Bluemix altogether. It is not an easy as it sounds because all these data are into different cloud centres and have to be managed. They are a risk of System failure and Cyber attacks in Multi-cloud. So Cloud Computing is not going to be an easy as how it seems because you will have to not only manage the different cloud centres but also the software and the licenses.

Cloud Computing engages every department proactively

The cloud business is growing rapidly thus it also needs active working members to be proactive and work effectively. The CEO and CIO have to collaborate with each other so that there is efficiency in delivering the product or a service. Deloitte survey says that 53% of the cloud deployment involves Financials, 34% is ERP solution and 33% involves Human Resources potency.

IT departments are seemed to be extremely busy in carrying out their targeted task. The market has become very competitive thus the CEO’s and other top level executives are working harder to make an evolution in the market and also in their career.

VDI and DaaS are going to unravel more wonders in Cloud technology

Cloud Computing is developing over the years and VDI and DaaS are evolving rapidly. VDI and DaaS were the only operatives on Windows Desktop apps but now there are chances that it can be adapted to Mobile phones and other operating systems.

There is a possibility where VDI and DaaS will be compatible with Android devices and other operating systems. Over the years VDI and DaaS are improving their service and in future, there are going to be a lot of changes which will make clouding service easier and reliable.

Golf now shifting from the field to Cloud

Now Golf is getting to the next level by finding its way to the Cloud. Paige Spiranac, a professional golfer said that to put interest in people to play golf can be done by introducing Golf in their mobiles.

The company will be selling a cloud-based tournament where you can play golf online, or update your score with other golf players. It is a social game where you can connect with other golf players and share your statistics.

“18Birdies” have 400,000 users and there has been a 100 percent increase in new users. You can easily play your games with cloud-based programs to increase the speed and with hassle free services.

Google, Alphabet and Amazon drove Q1 results from Cloud

Cloud is being responsible for its growth in the revenue of the businesses such as Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft.

Amazon is earning revenue more compare to other cloud business in the market by having $35.7 billion in Q1 along with $3.6 billion or 10% of revenue coming from AWS. Microsoft, on the other hand, has revenue of $23.56 billion along with $3.6 billion or 10% of revenue coming from Cloud. Alphabet’s revenue is growing at positively by reaching $24.8 billion in Q1 along with $3 billion or 18% coming from its cloud business.

All three companies are benefitting from cloud business and trying to expand the clouding services in many different countries.

Alibaba launches Al cloud in Europe to be the lead market against Amazon and Microsoft

Alibaba is taking a further step to outrun Amazon web services and Microsoft by expanding Artificial Intelligence Cloud and its big data in Europe.

“Max Compute”, will be handling huge data which will make a prediction in real-time. Aliyun is the cloud division of the Chinese E-commerce and claims it can develop petabyte of data.'s 1,000,000 gigabytes is a Petabyte.

Alibaba’s cloud business is still growing rapidly but it is estimated that it is a small business for Alibaba because it has only 4% of revenues. Cloud Computing will dominate the market in the future and will be making a lot of revenue for the companies and investors.

Billionaire Mark Cuban Believes that Amazon can work well in Retail

Amazon is planning to acquire whole food organisation after having success in other ventures too. Mark Cuban tweeted about the Amazon capability of delivering food quick compare to manually going to the market and shopping groceries items.

Swami Sivasubramanian explained how Amazon Retail market is going to make buying grocery items easier and retailing efficient. It is going to be a huge market in coming years. Till now Amazon hasn't discussed their plans or intentions for whole foods yet, but it looks like Amazon will take over the whole foods market in coming years.

Amazon is leading the Cloud Rankings but the Competition is going strong

In any Competition there is always a top three thus in Cloud Ranking Amazon Web Services is first followed by Microsoft and Google. Market Research Firm Gartner’s witnessing that the top public cloud providers are Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google.

Amazon Web Service is estimated to have revenue of $14 billion this year which recorded as the biggest target so far. AWS is providing a variety of services but there is a need of a technical expertise to avail the service and also to do a billing. Microsoft and Google are showing growth in the market but their cloud computing services aren’t as good as Amazon Web Services.

At Amazon Web Services Summit 19 cloud innovations winners were announced

Teresa Carlson the Vice President of AWS announced the winners of the fourth annual city of the Cloud Innovation Contest held on June 14, 2017. There were three categories: Dream Big, Partners in Innovation and Best Practices.

The main aim of the Competition is to help the Regional, the local governments and also Schools to implement technology strategies and innovate products and services that can carry out the task with maximum efficiency. The winners were awarded AWS promotional credits so that they can continue with their projects. The city of Denver won last year and used the credit to develop an Enterprise Data Management (EDM).

Al exec is changing the face of the Technology Market with many breakthroughs

Al exec is changing the face of the market in the history of the technology. Artificial Intelligence research is still in the process of becoming a final product but we all are getting a hint that it is going to accelerate the notion of unlimited computing resources.

Swami Sivasubramanian is a Vice President of Al at AWS, he was explaining about the breakthrough Al exec will be making in the future. As Cloud computing is now actively popular in AWS it is positively going to make the future look brighter.

Amazon playing hard on Employees who are planning to quit to join AWS Competitors

Employees at Amazon Web Services have to think twice before quitting their job because of the new laws that have been enforced on the employment policy. Employees who quit the jobs and join AWS current competitors may face a law suit. 

Recently Gene Ferrell was sued by preventing him from working in the Smart sheet. But it is not the case with every employee in AWS. Dorothy Copeland left AWS to take a similar role at IBM and Adam Selipsky who also left AWS to become a CEO at Tableau Software. Employees at AWS are being careful and cautious before making a career decision. 

DevOps on Amazon Web Services

DevOps is a system where the Information Technology Operation and Software Development are combined which mainly results in the conspiration for better efficiency in the management. All the process are combined into one to improve the efficiency thus testing, building and bringing forth software into the market will be agile, quick and will be reliable

Amazon Web Services have come up with excellent services which can help in delivering products with the use of DevOps and AWS. This will be productive and economical for the company to invest so that to increase the reliability and quality of their product. Amazon Web Services will perform the following function such as to supervise your application, manage the infrastructure and also increase the performance, expand the application code, Streamline the provisions and Robotize software release process.

With the use of DevOps, it can increase the reliability and also combines the different cultural philosophies, process and the tools which will give a further push to increase the ability to deliver the products and application at an acceleration of a higher growth and quality. The Use of the traditional software is an outdated and slow process because the growth and the quality were limited but with the invention of this new practice, it can enable a faster growth and betterment of the company because DevOps is the new face of the software development in the market. The faster and reliable the service the more the customer’s growth increases so as to accelerate your competency DevOps should be inculcated into the process.

How will DevOps into AWS services accelerate your growth?

1.    Simplifies the Process:-

AWS services will help in managing a single situation or even attending a thousand configurations at one time. The provision is simplified and configuration is been eased out with the use of AWS services. Thus the configuration, provisioning and scaling system will be solved faster.

2.    Quicker Setup:-

It is very easy to set up the AWS service because there isn’t software to install and no procedure to imply. You just need to have an AWS account ready.

3.    Mainly concentrates on the core product:-

There isn’t any time wasted in setting up or installing the software or even spending much time in configuring the system. AWS services will make sure that you invest more time in the core product so that its quality and service increases.

4.    Programmable:-

AWS service is very flexible so that you can enable each service through AWS Command Line Interface or you can also go through SDK’s and API’s. You can monitor your AWS resources by using AWS Cloud Formation Templates.

5.    Robotize your system:-

AWS services are automated so that you can perform your task with ease and faster by automating the manual task, configuration management, container management, deployments developments and test workflows.

6.    Secure Strongly:-

AWS has AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to increase the security by setting up permissions and policies.

7.    Large Association of Partners:-

AWS services are supported by many partners so it will be easier for you to service the third party and also use open source tools with AWS to increase the productivity.

Improving Security Measures on Cloud

CIOs are opting to public cloud so that they can take the added advantage of flexibility, scalability and profitably cost effective. But the question arises that are the confidential data is safe out there. 

Therefore certain steps should be taken to protect data by extending native, third party security controls set and incremental, designing patters with approved technology stacks, Implement standard and pre-tested SDKs, Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS), Integrate DevSecOps into the system to improve speed and it is cost effective by automating security integration. If you want to strongly protect your data then adapt such tools and practices with an approach of DevSecOps.