by VAST | Feb 2, 2021 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud
Cloud is pay per use, so if you don’t use much, you won’t pay much. That’s the theory, anyway. In reality, cloud costs can quickly mount up. Take a look at how usage is charged for AWS storage and it’s clear why there’s no such thing as just a little cloud usage. S3...
by Michael Boehl | Feb 2, 2021 | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Lightsail is by far the easiest way to get started on AWS. It allows you to get your application running on your own virtual server in a matter of minutes. AWS has now added the capability of deploying container-based workloads on Amazon Lightsail. Container...
by Michael Boehl | Jan 4, 2021 | Amazon Web Services
AWS quadruples per-volume maximum capacity and performance on io2 volumes. On December 1st, 2020 AWS announced availability, in preview, of io2 Block Express volumes that are designed to deliver up to 4x higher throughput, IOPS, and capacity than io2 volumes, while...
by VAST | Dec 17, 2020 | Amazon Web Services
Software delivery used to be a balance between cost, time, and scope. Cloud has blown up a lot of the old IT paradigms, including the tradeoff among those characteristics. With the tools in Amazon Web Services (AWS), developers can rapidly deliver quality code, and...
by VAST | Dec 15, 2020 | Amazon Web Services, Cohesity
Coping with continually increasing volumes of data remains one of the biggest challenges in IT. The growth of data makes it difficult to track and manage; silos make it difficult to use. While cloud has made storage capacity available on demand, it hasn’t helped with...
by Michael Boehl | Dec 7, 2020 | Amazon Web Services
Amazon EKS and ECS will soon be available to run on-premises on existing customer infrastructure. This is a major shift in the cloud provider’s hybrid container management strategy that may help reduce costs. Due to be released in the first half of 2021, Amazon...