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Amazon Announces Cloud Spending Tool Cost Explorer

Amazon is adding a cloud cost tracking and analysis tool called Cost Explorer to the AWS Billing Console, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday. Cost Explorer will include tools for reporting, analyzing, and visualizing spending on AWS, to make tracking and budgeting cloud expenses easier for Amazon customers. Read More Continue reading

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In Clean Energy A is for Apple and Google, Not Amazon: Greenpeace

Apple has earned an A for renewable energy in its data centers, with Google and Facebook among other data center operators making progress, according to a Greenpeace report released Wednesday. At the other end of the spectrum, Amazon is singled out for the lack of clean energy in its data centers. Read More Continue reading

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AWS Brings Virtual Desktop Solution Amazon WorkSpaces to General Availability

Months after introducing its cloud-based desktop computing environment, Amazon WorkSpaces, in the fall at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services has announced that WorkSpaces has gone from being a Limited Preview to being fully available to all AWS customers. Continue reading

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Hackers Find Cloud Account Credentials on GitHub Leading to 72-Hour Cryptocurrency Mining Spree

A recent hijacking of an Amazon Web Services account from information found on project hosting service GitHub has illustrated that online criminals are scraping the source code of open projects for cloud login credentials. Continue reading

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Malware Distributors Using Major US Cloud Computing Services: Report

Malware distributors are adopting cloud computing, either by buying services directly or by compromising legitimate accounts, as a quick and cost-effective way to bring their malware online, according to a new report. Major hosting providers such as Amazon and GoDaddy (which host 16 percent and a 14 percent of malware, respectively) can also help malware avoid blacklisting by hiding behind these providers’ reputations. Continue reading

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