7 Benefits of Cloud Computing
With the increasing demands of businesses today, it’s no wonder that traditional IT companies find themselves struggling to keep up in terms of resources and output. Cloud computing helps remove many...
View ArticleCloud Storage with AWS
If you need a way to store data quickly, reliably, and within easy reach, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides cloud storage that has proven to be many times cheaper than storing data on-site. Why AWS...
View ArticleHow To Save Your Company From A Zombie Apocalypse
Zombies are among us! Ok, they’re not really, but what if they were? Could your business survive and if necessary thrive? Just for fun (or because we like AMC’s The Walking Dead) we thought we might...
View ArticleSupport for SSL and NNE in RDS for Oracle Editions
As Amazon continues to improve security for all its services, it has announced that Amazon RDS for Oracle provides support for Security Socket Layer (SSL). This will provide a secure network connection...
View ArticleAWS Sydney Meetup – April 6th 2016
Please join us for our monthly meetup sessions where we discuss what’s new and happening in the AWS space. Our speakers this month are: Paul Wakeford Fairfax Media Presenting – Reduce your AWS billy...
View ArticleSSL Connections for Schema Conversion Tool
The AWS Schema Conversion Tool now supports SSL connections. This includes both source and target engines, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and any MySQL including AWS’s own next generation Aurora...
View ArticleAWS Meetup July 2016
Another great AWS Sydney Meetup ran this week with a full house and some brilliant presentations. If you missed out then you are in luck as we have all the slide decks and also videos of the...
View ArticleAmazon ECS New Platforms Available
Amazon ECS makes it simple to run containerized applications. Everything is packaged as a service, so there is no application that needs to be installed. You simply specify the EC2 capacity you want...
View ArticleCloud Month In October–2016
As always, we’re delighted to provide news of exciting innovations happening at AWS. AWS Server Migration Service Launched The AWS Server Migration Service lets you incrementally automate, schedule,...
View ArticleAWS Launches Application Discovery Service Console
Planning on migrating to the AWS cloud? Need a way to discover and collect all information on your system? The AWS Application Discovery Service can do that for you automatically. By using a light data...
View ArticleEC2 Instances Introduce Size Flexibility
AWS EC2 had been upgraded in previous months with the release of Regional RIs. These RIs apply the discount for any Availability Zone within their Region, which can go as high as 75% compared to...
View ArticleCloud Month In Review – May 2017
AWS comes back with new updates this month! Amazon Redshift Spectrum Launched AWS has just introduced Amazon Redshift Spectrum, a service that lets users run complex queries on information stored in...
View ArticleAWS Launches Network Load Balancer
As part of their ongoing mission to provide better service, AWS has launched the new Network Load Balancer. Designed to handle hundreds of thousands of requests per second, Network Load Balancers...
View ArticlePolarSeven and AWS Webinar Series Invitation
AWS and PolarSeven would like to invite you to a new webinar series that we are launching. The P7 Webinars will be short introduction and update sessions to educate you about AWS services and...
View ArticleAmazon EFS–Encryption of Data in Transit
Amazon EFS is a file system for cloud-native applications that need shared access to file-based storage. Amazon EFS has been launched in 2016 and has since gained several new features. Now, AWS has...
View ArticleAWS Community Day
Developers and IT community… You won’t want to miss this opportunity to learn about the latest tech from community experts. Come along and challenge your skills with AWS and Alex labs on the day,...
View ArticleAWS Meetup & AWS TechShift
This Wednesday marks the last formal Meetup of the year, so bring along your friends & colleagues to hear from leading experts in the AWS tech industry. This month Kishore from PolarSeven will be...
View ArticleRe:Invent Recap
Hi Everyone! An important announcement, AWS re:Invent recap event is being hosted at AWS next Wednesday 18:00. Please do not show up to our usual venue at Blue Chilli. Click here for more details. Due...
View ArticleAWS Contingencies for Disasters
In the face of more powerful typhoons and other natural disasters, it’s good to remember that AWS has installed various contingencies to ensure that their services will continue to operate during the...
View ArticleAWS Reduces Data Transfer Prices for Japan and Australia
AWS is happy to announce price reductions for data transfer in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). This will effectively make data transfers from AWS EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudFront...
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