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Instagram Migrates from Amazon’s Cloud into Facebook Data Centers

Just as there are many reasons to move applications from internal data centers into the cloud, there are many reasons to move the other way. The recent migration ofInstagram’s entire backend stack from Amazon Web Services’ public cloud into Facebook’s data centers was a good example of the latter. Continue reading

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OnApp Opens Public Cloud Compute Marketplace for Service Providers

The OnApp Federation, made up of more than 2,000 clouds around the world, now allows service providers to share compute and storage resources in an online marketplace, essentially opening up the world’s largest federated public cloud for the use of service providers. Continue reading

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Microsoft Azure’s Brazil South Region Now Generally Available

After weeks in public preview, the Brazil South region of public cloud platform Microsoft Azure, located in Sao Paulo state, is now generally available. Continue reading

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Internap Launches OpenStack-Powered Public Cloud

Internap has become the latest data center services provider to launch a public cloud service built using the open source cloud infrastructure software OpenStack. The company has offered public cloud services before, but the new AgileCLOUD platform ensures better operability with other OpenStack-based clouds through the OpenStack API. Continue reading

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CenturyLink Wants to Win in Hybrid Cloud, Cuts Public Cloud and Bandwidth Prices

CenturyLink is the latest public cloud provider to join in the price cutting wars, announcing lower prices for CenturyLink Cloud CPU, RAM, block storage and bandwidth. The new price cuts will see a typical CenturyLink Cloud VM cost at least 60 percent less than before, and bandwidth will be $0.05 GB out per month starting mid-June. Continue reading

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