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Established in 2010, Easy Cloud began with the goal of helping small to medium businesses migrate to G Suite (formerly Google Apps) for email and operations, Wordpress for websites, and Untangle for security.

In more recent years, we have evolved and entered the DevOps space by utilizing emerging cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

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The top 12 security announcements at AWS re:Invent 2021

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As the largest cloud provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS) really has only one choice when it comes to security—and that is to approach things “holistically,” the company’s top cybersecurity executive said this week during AWS re:Invent 2021. “You don’t want to secure just one thing or one edge—or use one technique or one approach,” said Stephen Schmidt, chief information security officer at AWS, during a session at the conference in Las Vegas Thursday.UnmuteDuration 0:56/Current… Read more

Important Changes in Atlassian Server Licenses

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We want to let all of our customers know of an important licensing change for the Atlassian suite. Atlassian licensing is confusing to begin with so we thought we would highlight the key pieces of information you need to know. As of February 2, 2021 PT, Atlassian will no longer sell new licenses for their Server products and will cease new feature development in their Server product line.… Read more

Office 365 Government

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In response to the unique and evolving requirements of the United States public sector, Microsoft has created Office 365 Government plans (or Office 365 Government). This service description provides an overview of features that are specific to Office 365 Government US environments.… Read more

Amazon launches AWS instances powered by Habana’s AI accelerator chip

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud services division, today announced the general availability of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) DL1 instances. While new instance types generally aren’t particularly novel, DL1 (specifically DL1.24xlarge) is the first type in AWS designed for training machine learning models, Amazon says — powered by Gaudi accelerators from Intel-owned Habana Labs.… Read more

AWS Snowcone: A Small, Lightweight, Rugged, Secure Edge Computing, Edge Storage, and Data Transfer Device

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Last month I published my AWS Snowball Edge Update and told you about the latest updates to Snowball Edge, including faster storage-optimized devices with more memory & vCPUs, the AWS OpsHub for Snow Family GUI-based management tool, IAM for Snowball Edge, and Snowball Edge Support for AWS Systems Manager.… Read more

Optimizing a multimillion-dollar cloud bill

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In December 2019, A Cloud Guru acquired our largest competitor, Linux Academy — along with a $2.7 million USD annual AWS bill. Prior to the acquisition, cloud spend was a proportionally small expense for ACG. After all, we’re the people who identified as the world’s first serverless startup and liked to show off pictures of our empty production EC2 console.… Read more