2022 is shaping up to be an extremely busy year for our team and for AWS certifications! So far this year, we’ve already refreshed our Certified Cloud Practitioner Learning Path, released a learning path for the brand new Certified SAP on AWS – Specialty (PAS-C01) exam in April, and are actively working on updating our […]
The new AWS: No more dumpster fires
We used to be able to count on a steady blaze of open source dumpster fires raging in the corner of downtown Seattle where AWS is headquartered. But not recently. There’s been a curious lack of drama for the company once castigated for “strip mining” open source. Though such accusations tended to be not a little self-serving, […]
AWS can’t help Amazon avoid first loss since 2015
Amazon’s fast-growing cloud division couldn’t help its parent company avoid posting its first quarterly loss since 2015. Amazon Web Services saw revenue grow by 37% to $18.4 billion for the first quarter of 2022. That amounted to an operating profit of $6.5 billion, which was up 57% year-on-year and outpaced analyst expectations by almost $1 […]
Oracle Java popularity sliding, New Relic reports
While still the industry’s leading Java distribution, Oracle Java’s popularity is half what it was just two years ago, according to a report from application monitoring company New Relic. The finding was included the company’s 2022 State of the Java Ecosystem report, released April 26, which is based on data culled from millions of applications […]
AWS Amplify adds visual development tool
Amazon Web Services has made AWS Amplify Studio generally available. A visual development interface for AWS Amplify, AWS Amplify Studio is intended to simplify front-end and back-end development for web and mobile applications. The point-and-click visual development environment extends the AWS Amplify tool set for building web and mobile apps, allowing developers to visually build […]
AWS launches $30M Impact Accelerator for minority-led startups
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a $30 million Impact Accelerator, offering guidance, funding and AWS credits to early-stage US-based startups led by female, Black, Latino, and LGBTQIA+ founders. The four eight-week programs will give founders access to various training, mentoring, and technical guidance opportunities, as well as introductions to Amazon leaders and teams, networking […]
Turns out AWS can partner after all
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has never been the open source ogre that some have claimed, but it also hasn’t been quite as good as some have wanted. As AWS has grown larger, my personal view is that it has sometimes struggled to apply its own Leadership Principles or LPs (“Customer Obsession,” “Deliver Results,” “Insist on the […]
In an evolving cloud world, Azure passes AWS
Reliance on cloud is growing rapidly—and with some surprising new trends. Most notably, Microsoft Azure seems to be either closing the gap, or has slightly surpassed, Amazon Web Services (AWS) with some users. Specifically, Azure appears to have passed AWS in the percentage of enterprises using it (80% Azure vs. 77% AWS), meaning public or […]
Review: Document parsing in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
Records have been written for thousands of years, in many scripts and on many media. Clay tablets, stone tablets, wax tablets, papyrus, parchment, and paper all preceded digital media. In our hurry to move from paper to digital media, the most common shortcut has been to scan paper into PDF documents, which have the virtue […]
New AWS re:Invent Announcements: Dr. Werner Vogels Keynote
I’ve always found Dr. Werner Vogels’ presentations are both informative and entertaining. His re:Invent 2021 keynote was no exception. If you’ve followed his “Now Go Build” video series or his more recent “Climate Next” series, it seems as if the video crew loved to produce his keynote introduction with a segment paying homage to 10 […]