Amazon has finally issued a formal apology and explanation for the outage of its AWS cloud-based services that brought many leading websites to a screeching halt.  The company has also revealed a list of preventative measures it plans to take to keep such an outage from occurring again. The document lists many changes that Amazon [...]

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You know that little site called WikiLeaks? It’s kind of been in the news for the last few days because it leaked some sort of “top secret” documents. Well, it looks like the site was down the other day not only because of those ongoing DDoS attacks, but also because Amazon booted the controversial site [...]

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OK, it’s time for me to admit something. I’m a bit of a tech, gadget, and internet marketing nut.  There are times, however, when a news item appears that flies just over my head a bit. Such was the case today when Amazon added something called Hadoop to its Amazon Web Services lineup. What is [...]

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