
Understanding Amazon Web Services Cloud Watch
Sometimes making an alarm is the best thing you can do for yourself when working with Amazon Web Services. Sometimes things can go wrong with your cloud computing installation, and it would be a great idea to know what is happening with your cloud systems. We simply cannot have the console open 24X7 to monitor […]

AWS, Redshift and Co-Opetition
Long time technology commentators understand the tensions between platform companies, intent on both growing their business and creating a healthy ecosystem, and ecosystem partners who leverage what the platform brings, but remain apprehensive about the long term intensions of the platform vendor. Case in point – the growing number of services offered by Amazon Web […]

Amazon Cloud and the Enterprise – Is it a love story? (Free Infographic Included)
As befitting any great online vendor, Amazon cloud product guys listen carefully to their market targets and ensure fast implementation and delivery to satisfy their needs. It is clear that Amazon cloud is eager to conquer the enterprise market, as I already mentioned in my past post, “Amazon AWS is the Cloud (for now anyway)“. […]

Amazon Outage: Is it a Story of a Conspiracy? – Chapter 2
In April 2011, when Amazon’s cloud s east region failed. I posted the first chapter of the Amazon Cloud Outage Conspiracy – it was already very clear that the cloud will fail again and here it is… Chapter 2 Let’s first try to understand Amazon’s explanation for this outage. At approximately 8:44PM PDT, there was […]

AWS Launches a Marketplace–Proof that Much of the Value is Further Up the Stack
Summary – it’s a long post so here’s what you need to know. Amazon Web Services is moving up the stack. Existing ecosystem partners will benefit from that in the short term but it’s a risk for them long term. Other infrastructure vendors will surely follow suit. It’s game on! Now if you have the […]