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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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New Solid-State Option Available to Users of Amazon’s Block Storage Cloud

Amazon Web Services has added a new “General Purpose” Solid-State Drive volume type to its Amazon Elastic Block Store service, offering performance to meet many applications where performance is crucial. Continue reading

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Facing Politically Motivated DDoS Attack, NationBuilder Fights to Keep Customers Online

NationBuilder, a company that provides web hosting and other services for political organizing, has alerted customers that it is working to bring its services back to normal after a DDoS attack starting Monday. Continue reading

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Apple iCloud Terms of Service Violates Norwegian Law

Earlier this year the Norwegian Consumer Council published a study about terms of service (TOS) in clould services. The council found terms were hazy at best and varied across the services iCloud, Drop Box, Sugar Sync Google Drive, Jotta Cloud, SpiderOak, and Microsoft OneDrive. Based on the findings of this… Continue reading

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New Datapipe Analytics for AWS Service Helps Enterprises Manage Public Cloud Costs

Datapipe will attempt to help enterprises manage public cloud sprawl and costs with its Datapipe Cloud Analytics for Amazon Web Services, the company announced Wednesday. The managed service uses Datapipe’s Big Data Engine to collect and analyze usage metrics and provides analytics, recommendations and tools. Continue reading

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