Andy Jassy (CEO - AWS)

There are many good cloud companies that do a perfectly good job. You click and they deliver a root login to a running instance.

All of them are good. Some even have areas where theyre the best. None of them, though, manage to measure up to the breadth and depth of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The reason is simple: AWS has built out so many products and services that its impossible to begin to discuss them in a single article or even a book. Many of them were amazing innovations when they first appeared and the hits keep coming

Every year Amazon adds new tools that make it harder and harder to justify keeping those old boxes pumping out heat and over-stressing the air conditioner in the server room down the hall.

For all of its dominance, though, Amazon has strong competitors. Companies like Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Rackspace, Linnode, and Digital Ocean know that they must establish a real presence in the cloud and they are finding clever ways to compete and excel in what is less and less a commodity business.

These rivals offer great products with different and sometimes better approaches. In many cases, theyre running neck and neck with AWS. And if what youre after is a commodity machine, well, their commodity Linux instance will run the same code as AWS.

Sometimes the competitors not only match AWS for commodity products, but they actually do a better job. These advantages often appear when the competitors link their cloud to parts of the computer ecosystem that they already dominate.

If you want to use .NET code, youll find it just a bit easier on Microsoft Azure. If you want to use Googles G Suite of web-based office productivity tools, its no surprise that theyre well-integrated with Google Cloud Platform.

Still, for all of these competitors innovation and success, Amazon continues to outshine them in many waysand the words many ways is a pretty good summary of Amazons approach. The company has evolved a strong, consistent style that might be described as overwhelming.

The AWS cloud offers at least 10 different databases and another nine different products lumped in a separate category called storage. There are dozens of different types of machine available in dozens of different configurations of RAM and CPUs and you can arrange for Amazon to scale them automatically when the load increases.

Indeed, the greatest advantage of AWS may be the sheer overwhelming number of options. Most of the time, someone there has faced the same problem thats confounding you and theyve set up a team to productise a solution. You just have to work your way through all of the options.

Here are just 14 of the ways AWS beats Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

1 - Neutrality

Amazon is great at so many things, but there are a number of important parts of the computing ecosystem where they really dont have a dog in the fight. In these areas, theyre good about playing well with everyone.

Microsoft Office dominates many business spaces around the world and Googles G Suite handles most of the others. Its common to find that the various parts of the AWS cloud like Alexa for Business work well with both worlds. Microsofts Visual Studiohas many devotees and so does Eclipse. AWS doesnt play favourites and has an integration toolkit for each of them.

Amazon is not afraid of embracing standards and bringing them inside its big tent. If you run Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle Database, Amazon will provide what you need and wont force you to rewrite your code to use its own proprietary storage model.

Its easy to find the products of ostensible competitors running smoothly in the AWS cloud. The companys breadth and depth is a result of being unafraid of reaching into many corners of the computing world and excellent at bringing those corners into the cloud.

2 - Full-service options

In the early years, AWS was aimed at delivering commodity machines that did everything that was asked of them. Lately Amazon has been adding built-out services that target certain nicheslike a customer service call centre, in the case of Amazon Connect.

Maybe you dont need Amazon Connect, but as AWS adds more of these targeted services, theres a good chance that someone at AWS already built most of what you need.

Theyve already got plenty of tools for call centres, Internet of Things, mobile app support, business productivity, and, for those with their own network of orbiting satellites, a full-function Ground Station as a Service.

3 - Container focus

All of the cloud companies understand the attractiveness of containers like Docker, but Amazon is pushing further by building a special, stripped-down version of Linux called Bottlerocketthat has just enough code to keep the machine running but not much more.

Teams running microservices can choose it and quit worrying about extra cruft like FTP servers sitting around in the background. Amazon also intends to embrace containers even more by skipping over the traditional packages for security and feature upgrades.

These will be available as complete containers instead, so upgrades can be done in one step and managed with many of the same tools youre already using to juggle your own containers.

4 - AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda started as a cute idea, a kind of simple shell script that could glue together all of the operations in the cloud. Users quickly turned to Lambdas serverless functions to handle occasional computing tasks because its so much more efficient than dedicating a machine for work that arrives sporadically.

That might be a background process that runs once an evening, a corner of your microservices architecture that isnt used often, or maybe just that blog full of your rantings that still hasnt found its audience yet.

Eventually people realised that Lambda could be ideal for more complicated background processing, especially the kind that would run sporadically. If a server is idling more than its working, switching to the serverless model could save a dramatic amount of money.

AWS noticed and expanded the maximum RAM for Lambda functions to 3GB and maximum running time to 15 minutes.

If your processing is sporadic, Lambda could be the cheapest way to host some significant jobs in the cloud.And the use cases will only continue to grow. AWS Lambda functions could already manipulate most parts of the Amazon cloud and theyre infiltrating whats left. Amazon probably wont stop until every part of the AWS cloud will answer to the serverless commands.

5 - Broad AI platform

If your shop is obsessed with mixing AI into your stack, Amazon has almost too many options to consider. There are too many to list. They begin with basic tools like SageMaker for training models to respond to your data. These tools have attracted plenty of developers and that may be why the sales literature brags that 85 per cent of TensorFlow projects in the cloud run on AWS.

The basic training, though, is just the beginning because AWS also offers a wide range of tools aimed at particular industries. Amazon Comprehend Medicalplows through unstructured medical texts looking for lifesaving treatments. Amazon Fraud Detection looks for malicious behaviour.

Developers new to AI can begin exploring with highly automated options like AutoGluon, a project from the AWS lab that is designed to make it simpler to dive in.

The Microsoft and Google clouds also have deep AI expertise and commitment, but Amazons wide range is hard to beat.

6 - 24 terabytes of RAM

If youre running very big enterprise databases or you just believe that whoever dies with the most RAM wins, some of the new high-memory machines from Amazon are just what you need. Up to 24 terabytes of RAM can be yours in just a few clicks.

AWS gives you other ways to wear your big boy pants as well. Theyve worked with vendors like SAP to make sure their cloud instances can scale up as big as necessary. Are your Oracle databases getting too big? Amazon wants to host them and it has expanded its Amazon RDS for Oracle machines to support instances with as much as 64 terabytes of SSD storage.

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The Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic is impacting society and the overall economy across the world. The impact of this pandemic is growing day by day as well as affecting the supply chain. The COVID-19 crisis is creating uncertainty in the stock market, massive slowing of supply chain, falling business confidence, and increasing panic among the customer segments. The overall effect of the pandemic is impacting the production process of several industries including Technology, Media and Telecommunications, and many more. Trade barriers are further restraining the demand- supply outlook. As government of different regions have already announced total lockdown and temporarily shutdown of industries, the overall production process being adversely affected; thus, hinder the overall Cloud Based Payroll Software market globally. This report on Cloud Based Payroll Software market provides the analysis on impact on Covid-19 on various business segments and country markets. The report also showcase market trends and forecast to 2027, factoring the impact of Covid -19 Situation.

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This novel coronavirus has turned our lives upside down, hasn't it?

It has forced millions of us to go through a mandatory simplification in our lives.

This, in turn, has also brought about a new transformation on a global scale. Along with a shift in our production and consumption methods, a transformation in areas ranging from health care to education has become inevitable as well.

With all this extra time to think and research while stuck at home, we are once again realizing our real needs nutrition, shelter, and social ties.

The novel coronavirus is making us realize the importance of issues we used to disregard, things we took for granted or measures for change we just kept postponing. We are realizing that healthy eating does not comprise of just eating meat or greens, that cleaning can also be done with soap made with olive oil. We are seeing how much traveling, having clean air, seeing the sun, sharing and solidarity mean to us.

We are re-grasping that our planet is not a "resource" that will serve us forever, that all beings on Earth, living or inorganic, are part of a whole and we share invisible ties. We are starting to register that if we use too much water, we will run out. We are seeing that we can live without closets and closets full of clothes and that agriculture and food safety is crucial.

While some of us can shield ourselves from the virus at home, essential workers in sectors such as health care, agriculture, food, energy, food, transportation and security continue to risk their lives for the needs of millions. The awareness of this risk is starting to sink in, and this risk enables us to take steps not to request unnecessary products and services and to experience what we can do to change our consumption habits.

This pandemic, too, will pass, but there are more serious problems awaiting us, experts have warned. The climate crisis and environmental destruction will eventually (maybe sooner than later thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic) force us all to reduce our consumption and transform our lives for the better.

This pandemic, which has undermined the values of wealth and money, has also allowed us to review our actual needs and push us to seek ways we can simplify. Here are a few ideas from the Buday (wheat in English) Association for Supporting Ecological Living.

Buy local, eat local

We may not know how long this pandemic will last or how long we will have to stay at home but it has reminded us once again how important it is to have access to food, and close by. It is now our turn to warn decision-makers and policymakers, and make more effort toward implementing environmentally friendly producing and harvesting methods that care about the Earth's health, as well as our own and that of other species we share this planet with.

By directly supporting local production in our own regions, we can meet our needs locally instead of turning to far-away sources and sellers, thus reducing our ecological and carbon footprint.

Dine with the planet in mind

In recent years, and especially since this pandemic broke out, proper nutrition has been gaining more and more importance with a focus on ecologically and environmentally friendly produce, grown with local seeds.

One important point to consider about food products that find their way onto our table is the methods with which they are grown. Those grown with conventional agricultural chemicals such as nitrogen, nitrites, phosphorous and phosphates alongside other pesticides and fertilizers have been found to cause both acute and chronic diseases as well as pollute our soil and water. Thus, by infecting these sources, these chemicals can kill many species living in those habitats, drastically reducing biogenetic diversity, which we need for the future of our food.

When in doubt DIY

By making your own bread, yogurt and cheese at home, you can both avoid going out for food shopping and maintain a healthier, probiotic-rich diet. This might be the best time to get started on your journey of home-cooked meals.

Compost at home

Now is the time to make use of and transform your kitchen waste. You can realize your dream of composting which you have put off by claiming you don't have enough time on your balcony, if you have one, or in a corner of your garden. You can even gather your neighbors and convince them to join in. You can still compost together as long as you pay attention to social distancing.

Avoid polluting when cleaning

One other thing this pandemic has reminded us is that we do not need highly-perfumed, harmful chemical-laded detergents and that soap and water are sufficient. We need to realize how some chemicals in detergents can pollute our water supplies, soil and environment, and hurt our health while cleaning. White vinegar and baking soda or plain old soap can sometimes be better alternatives to strong, smelly bleach. In fact, bleach has been found to cause, and not just trigger, asthma, according to research by the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC). Weekly use of bleach as a disinfectant has also been linked to a higher risk of up to almost a third of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Of course, with the coronavirus running rampant, some experts are recommending using diluted bleach to clean hard surfaces, so if you don't believe in the power of soap and water, make sure to ventilate the room well and don't overdo it. Also, try to limit its contamination with your water supplies.

Reduce energy use

Around 7 million people worldwide die every year due to health problems caused by air pollution. In Turkey alone, it is estimated to kill 29,000 people every year. The most important factor behind air pollution is the burning of fossil fuels, emitted in heating, energy production and transportation. The significant reduction in transportation and energy usage due to the coronavirus pandemic has had positive implications for our air quality. This serves to show that the future measures we will take are critical to reduce and prevent air pollution.

The informatics footprint

Technology, its benefits endless, is not that innocent. While we browse for hours and hours on social media, text on WhatsApp or watch videos on YouTube, we are consuming energy and thus the resources of our planet. The energy consumed by the internet and the carbon footprint it leaves behind are about to surpass that of civilian aircraft. According to data from 2015, the internet releases 830 million tons of CO2, which is equal to the power of approximately 80 nuclear power plants.

Yes, the internet is a vital part of our lives, but perhaps we could try to reduce the amount we spend on it daily. You can, too, reduce your IT footprint with simple steps such as just pressing reply instead of reply all in appropriate cases, leave unnecessary e-mail groups, use clean energy cloud servers for data and unplug electrical devices when they are not in use.

Easier to prevent than treat

The coronavirus outbreak has also changed our view of health. We have once again grasped the wholeness of our body, the importance of our immune system and the effect of nutrition on it. While the health system needs regulations not only for diseases and patients but also to keep people and animals healthy, each of us can take individual steps and take preventive health precautions before it is too late.

Gear up for bigger crises

The coronavirus outbreak is giving us an opportunity to change our lives and improve our own health, our quality of life and the health of the planet. If we do not take this opportunity, climate experts are warning that the problems caused by environmental pollution will hit us hard in the face.

At the root of the troubles caused by the coronavirus lies dominant patterns of thought and behavior and, in particular, consumerist culture. We need to create new ways of thinking, behavior and habits, to design production-consumption models and lead lifestyles compatible with our ecosystem, instead of reverting back to our old ways.

We can stay at our homes today, but tomorrow, neither washing our hands nor staying at home will be a remedy for problems such as drought, ecological migration and illness caused by climate changes that experts have warned for years.

As Einstein said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results."

The key to solving these evidently lies in global transformation, which will come via responsible policies and strategies in all fields, from energy to agriculture, health to education and housing to transportation.

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AUSTIN, TX, April 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BOXX Technologies, the leading innovator of high-performance workstations, rendering systems, and servers, today announced the officiallaunch of BOXX Cloud Services (BCS), a unique, secure, high-performance, virtual private cloud workstation service powered by professionally overclocked BOXX workstationspurpose-built for enterprise organizations CAD applications and workflows.

Were going beyond the limitations of traditional virtualized infrastructure which relies on server-based technology, said Shoaib Mohammad, VP of BOXX Cloud Services. Unlike Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) or cloud hosted solutions, which fail to address the high-performance needs of architects, engineers, product designers, and other CAD users, BCS provides custom, dedicated workstations inside a scalable data center environment. It also allows you to extend your data center with a pay-as-you-go model and without the complexities and upfront cost of building an onsite private cloud.

Purpose-built for leading CAD applications where single-threaded application performance is as equally important as the number of CPU cores, BCS cloud-hosted desktops offer performance identical to that of a high-performance desk side workstation, allowing the most demanding users to create without compromise. Powered by dedicated NVIDIA Quadro RTX GPUs, BCS delivers state-of-the-art graphics performance and support for CUDAa feature essential for modern workflows and one which many cloud-hosted desktops fail to support.

After multiple attempts using other cloud services, Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects (SNHA), a leading architectural firm with offices in Chicago and London, became an early adopter of BCS.

We tried a number of cloud-based solutions, but each was unsuccessful in meeting our needs, said Oscar Medellin, BIM Manager, SNHA. What separates BOXX Cloud Services from the rest is outstanding performance and service. BCS delivers higher performance to our architects while significantly lowering our IT burden. I cant overstate the significance of that with employees working from home or the office.

In addition to lowering the burden on enterprise organization IT departments, BCS is designed for a wider range of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms, as well as manufacturing and product design (MPD) companies which may not have adequate expertise in VDI or cloud hosted deployments. Leveraging Teradici PCoIP technology which securely delivers lossless, high-fidelity color and high-resolution graphics, BCS provides an enhanced user experience extending beyond the remote graphics capabilities of competing cloud providers. Ensuring the best possible performance with a wide variety of peripherals found in CAD workflows, a BCS-hosted workstation is delivered to any notebook, desktop, thin client, zero client, or tablet, as if the desktop is actually in front of the user.

Highly specialized industries like architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing and product design have unique requirements that differ from the typical enterprise, said Ziad Lammam, Vice President of Product Management, Teradici. In shifting to cloud-based virtual workstations, companies in this space can see significant benefit from working with a specialized service tailored to meet these requirements. BOXX Cloud Services with integrated Cloud Access Software from Teradici offers such companies a way to keep their teams online and their projects moving forward quickly and efficiently with the high level of performance, security and user experience they need.

Computer Aided Technology (CATI), experts in deploying SOLIDWORKS and other engineering and manufacturing technology throughout multiple companies, believes cloud migration will continue, if performance is consistent with that of traditional workstations.

Even in our present work-from-home situations, it's essential for cloud service providers to deliver the same level of performance a user expects from their desk side workstation, said Adrian Fanjoy, Senior Vice President, Operations, CATI. Our thorough testing of BOXX Cloud Services revealed a flexible and highly capable platform that meets the needs of the most demanding SOLIDWORKS workloads."

For further information and pricing on BOXX Cloud Services, contact a BOXX sales consultant in the US at 1-877-877-2699. Learn more about BOXX systems, finance options, and how to contact worldwide resellers, by visiting http://www.boxx.com.

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