In the Know: 5 Cloud Stories to Review, Jan. 13
Talkin’ Cloud at the end of each day pulls out five must-read cloud computing stories from the news cycle for its readers to review in the morning. Today’s column features Amazon (AMZN), Verizon (VZ) and Google (GOOG).
Some of these stories have been gathered from Talkin’ Cloud’s article database, while others have been collected from elsewhere. If we missed something, feel free to leave a comment below. We might just add it into the mix.
Here’s today’s list of five cloud computing stories to know for today.
Amazon Launches Compute-Intensive C4 Instances on EC2. The compute-intensive instances Amazon previewed in November are now generally available. The Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) C4 instances are now available as reserved and on-demand instances, as well as being accessible through the Spot Market.
Verizon Cloud Gets Performance Boost After Weekend Downtime. As it warned in advance, Verizon took down its IaaS offering this weekend for a maintenance upgrade. The expected two-day downtime window turned out to be about 40 hours, but with the maintenance done, Verizon is now promising no more outages of the kind.
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3 Things You Need to Know About the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program. Google’s revenues rose 20 percent year over year to $16.5 billion in the third quarter of last year — and this technology giant continues to explore ways to increase its profits as well. In 2015, Google has already revamped its Google Cloud Platform Partner Program, which is designed “to enable participants to build their practices or products on the Google Cloud Platform, and to support and recognize participants as they reach higher levels of success.”
Amazon Releases New Encryption Options for RDS. Encryption isn’t always easy to deal with in the cloud (or in any other way, actually), but AWS is hoping to make encryption simpler for its customers. The company unveiled new encryption options for its Relational Database Service (RDS), enabling additional encryption options for a variety of database services for its customers.
Google Cloud Trace Goes Into Beta. Google Cloud Trace, which was first announced at Google I/O back in June, is finally heading into its beta release. The new tool was designed to diagnose service performance bottlenecks to help ensure applications can run at optimal speed.
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