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3 AWS container security best practices

Security is crucial for container-based applications. Learn how to protect AWS container environments with best practices for ECS, EKS and the extension for on-premises deployments.

By Stuart Burns • July 12, 2021

DoD scraps politically fraught $10B JEDI cloud deal

The Pentagon's $10 billion cloud contract with Microsoft is no more. The DoD will solicit bids from Microsoft and AWS for a new pact called Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability.

By Chris Kanaracus • July 6, 2021

In search of AWS Solutions Architect preparation?

Think you're ready for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification exam? Test your knowledge with these 12 questions, and assess your test readiness.

By George Lawton • July 2, 2021

Amazon API Gateway

Amazon API Gateway is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) feature that enables developers to connect non-AWS applications to AWS back-end resources, such as servers and code.

By David Carty • July 2, 2021

Get Azure Fundamentals exam practice with this quick quiz

Getting officially certified in MS Azure Fundamentals is a career-booster. This 12-question quiz will help assess your readiness for this key professional exam.

By George Lawton • July 1, 2021

Selling professional services on cloud marketplaces

Partners say cloud sales platforms offer a way to find new customers, launch proofs of concept and seed bigger deals. Learn more about this emerging channel.

By John Moore • June 25, 2021

HPE bolsters GreenLake with support for Microsoft Azure Stack

HPE took another step toward its goal of being mainly a software-as-a-services company by 2022 with new services for GreenLake and several partnerships, including Microsoft.

By Ed Scannell • June 22, 2021

Oracle offers on-premise support discount for cloud buyers

Oracle's latest bid to attract customer workloads to its public cloud involves discounts on traditional software license maintenance and support fees.

By Chris Kanaracus • June 22, 2021

Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is a service that enables a data analyst to perform interactive queries in the web-based cloud storage service, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

By Alexander Gillis, David Carty • June 21, 2021

PwC cloud report points to ‘value gap’

Despite widespread enthusiasm for cloud computing, many organizations have yet to see a significant payoff from their investments, a PwC cloud study found; other news.

By John Moore • June 18, 2021

Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a master image for the creation of virtual servers -- known as EC2 instances -- in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment.

By Ivy Wigmore • June 16, 2021

Invest in cloud security to future-proof your organization

The cloud has opened many opportunities for enterprises to maintain operations during the pandemic, but it has also created numerous security challenges that must be addressed.

By Anant R. Adya • June 15, 2021

How to migrate VMware VMs to AWS with ease

You can complete a VMware to AWS migration with Amazon's CLI tool and a few commands, but a migration with large data sets requires preparation and testing.

By Paul Ferrill • June 15, 2021

Amazon Glacier

Amazon Glacier, also known as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Glacier, is a low-cost cloud storage service for data with longer retrieval times offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

By Alexander Gillis, David Carty • June 15, 2021

Benefits and drawbacks of AI in cloud computing

AI and cloud computing work hand in hand to improve upon various processes, but the combination of these technologies comes with a price.

By Joydip Kanjilal • June 14, 2021

AWS Outposts: What you need to know to get started

AWS Outposts is a managed device that brings Amazon cloud services into your data center. Review its requirements, use cases and a step-by-step guide to the installation process.

By Adam Bertram • June 11, 2021

Amazon Lightsail

Amazon Lightsail is an Amazon cloud service that offers bundles of cloud compute power and memory for new or less experienced cloud users.

By David Carty, TechTarget Contributor • June 10, 2021

Build apps with these cloud architecture diagram examples

Cloud changes the way IT teams build an application's architecture. Follow these diagram examples, using top cloud providers, to help guide your project.

By Kurt Marko • June 9, 2021

How to create Amazon EC2 security groups

Before setting up security groups for AWS resources, review rules, requirements and potential missteps. Follow these steps to properly configure security groups for EC2 instances.

By Ernesto Marquez • June 8, 2021

Application Load Balancer

The Application Load Balancer is a feature of Elastic Load Balancing that allows a developer to configure and route incoming end-user traffic to applications based in the AWS public cloud.

By Rahul Awati, Tim Culverhouse • June 8, 2021

Oracle Cloud lures developers with ‘Always Free’ services

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure lags rivals, but the company hopes that a broader set of free services will draw interest from a critical constituency – developers.

By Chris Kanaracus • June 7, 2021

Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a machine learning-powered business intelligence service built for the cloud under the Amazon Web Services (AWS) umbrella.

By Rahul Awati, David Carty • June 7, 2021

Amazon Trust Services

Amazon Trust Services is a certificate authority created and operated by Amazon Web Services.

By Rahul Awati, Stephen Bigelow • June 2, 2021

Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito is an Amazon Web Services product that controls user authentication and access for mobile applications on internet-connected devices.

By Rahul Awati, David Carty • June 1, 2021

When should you use AWS IAM roles vs. users?

Access management is critical to securing the cloud. Understand the differences between AWS IAM roles and users to properly restrict access to AWS resources.

By Stephen Bigelow • May 28, 2021