As re:Invent conference wraps, AWS keeps getting stronger in the cloud
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As its annual re:Invent conference draws to a close, Amazon Web Services Inc. left no doubt in anyone’s mind that it’s investing deeply in the technologies, tools and applications that it will need to stay the clear industry leader in cloud computing. If you attended this year’s re:Invent in Las Vegas, your brain is probably […]
AWS Outposts Enable Hybrid Cloud
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Outposts is an AWS Hybrid Cloud offering which enables different full EC2 instances to be located remotely from the AWS Cloud. This move dramatically increases the reach and range of AWS, and is the start of an era of hybrid computing. Wikibon projected AWS would announce AWS hardware on customer presumes back before 2016.
Wikibon projects that AWS Outposts will be wildly successful.
AWS Open Source Contributions Increase
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Open source is now of critical importance to users, and to the industry in general. The spat over OpenJDK could have been avoided. Wikibon recommends that AWS be more aggressive in contributing to open source projects, and rewarding changes in culture. AWS needs to become a leader in the open source community, befitting the strong growth of AWS and the expected growth in reach from the excellent AWS Outposts service and the distributed IoT services.
AWS customers and international government bodies expect AWS to be a strong partner to the open source community. They also expect industry leaders to work together to resolve issues.
Deeper into cloud data: AWS launches a blitz of innovative AI offerings at re:Invent
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Amazon Web Services Inc. made artificial intelligence far and away the dominant theme of its announcements on Wednesday, the second day of re:Invent 2018. As presented in detail in AWS Chief Executive Andy Jassy’s keynotes, the latest announcements fell into the following categories: Driving innovative AI into every cloud application; Building and optimizing diverse data workloads […]