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Announcing SFTP Gateway – automatically upload files via SFTP to Amazon S3
We've just launched SFTP Gateway, a secure, pre-configured, reliable way to push files via SFTP to S3. We are excited to announce the launch of our new product, SFTP Gateway, now available on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace! SFTP Gateway is a secure,...
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How to improve your disaster recovery plan with the cloud
Cloud computing has made disaster recovery better and cheaper. Here's what you need to know about how to integrate the cloud into your disaster recovery plan. A disaster can strike at any time, disrupting the delivery of your software applications to your...
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What You Need to Think About Before Going Multi-Cloud
Consider these benefits and risks before you move to a multi-cloud environment. According to the 2016 IDC CloudView survey, 56% of companies who use AWS are also using cloud services from another provider, and an additional 23% of respondents have plans to do so very...
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The cloud staffing problem is real. Here’s how to deal with it.
More and more businesses are moving their on-premise IT infrastructure to the cloud to increase agility, cut costs, and reap the many other benefits that cloud computing can provide. If you’ve considered a move to the cloud, you’ve likely spent a lot of time thinking...
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AWS Tutorial: How to Build a Serverless Slack Chatbot
Create a serverless Slack chatbot with API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB Slack, a messaging tool with similarities to IRC, basically killed email in our office (for which I am forever grateful). Not only does Slack organize group conversations, but it provides extra...
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Serverless Architectures: Everything You Need to Know
What is serverless, what serverless frameworks are available, who uses it, and what are its pros and cons? Serverless is an increasingly popular approach to software development that is set to explode in 2017. The serverless movement started with the launch of AWS...
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AWS Tutorial: Intro to using Lambda with the Serverless framework
Use Serverless to create a REST API with Node.js and Lambda Lately, I've been turning to AWS Lambda for building server-side logic -- whether for client work, product development, or even personal projects. Lambda is a managed service, so there's no need to patch or...
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Why Cloud Computing is the Foundation of the Internet of Things
IoT presents a number of technical challenges. Here's how cloud computing helps solve them. Distinctively two separate technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing are closely associated. When the two are combined, they deliver powerful innovation...
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5 strategies for migrating your applications to the cloud
Understand the pros and cons of your cloud migration options - Lift-and-Shift; Lift, Shift, & Optimize; Refactoring; Containers; and Full Rebuild You’ve decided that migrating one or more applications to the cloud is necessary, and you’ve received the go-ahead...
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Mobile in 2017: The Year of Immersion, Context, and Conversation
Key mobile trends to monitor include an increase in hybrid apps for the enterprise, more artificial intelligence, and an explosion of VR and AR apps. 2016 proved to be an interesting year for mobile. On one hand, smartphone users are downloading fewer and fewer...
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