Tag: Pricing

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Brian Murray; VPN services are changing the way people use the internet by providing users with a more secure experience, access to blocked content and much more. If you want to protect all of your devices with a VPN — or just connect more devices than your VPN provider allows — then what you’re looking for is the best VPN for routers.  By setting up a VPN on your router, you can send a VPN connection to all of the devices connected in your house without having to install an app or set up the VPN manually ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. By running Windows Server versions 20H2 on Amazon EC2, customers can combine the scale, performance, and elasticity of AWS with the latest Semi-Annual Channel release version of Windows Server. Windows Server 20H2 License Included (LI) AMIs are available in all AWS commercial, AWS China, and AWS GovCloud (US) regions, and can be launched directly from the Amazon EC2 console. The AMIs are available in two versions – a default configured base version and a container version with all the relevant container features installed. Instances running Windows Server 20H2 AMIs are billed under the standard Windows pricing. To ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Vladimir Sumina; Apps can make our lives a lot simpler. Since the advent of cloud computing, there’s no longer a need for us to carry physical notebooks; we can instead take out our smartphones and write a quick — or long-form — note on the fly. There are many note-taking apps out there, which is why we made this list to help you choose the best note-taking app for your needs. We could talk about these apps for days, but to keep this article from getting too long, we’ve narrowed down the best of the best to ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; If you’re deciding on the best project management software for you or your company, you’ve come across the names Asana or monday.com, two powerhouses of the industry. In this monday.com vs Asana piece, we’re going to compare the two in a five-round battle and hopefully determine not just which one is better, but which one is better for you. The short of it is that monday.com comes out on top, even if only by a little bit in each round. While Asana is definitely one of the greats, it just misses the mark a little ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Ben Stockton; Hot Storage vs Cold Storage vs Warm Storage Hot storage refers to data that is frequently used and accessed, like documents on your hard drive, which means it requires faster (and more expensive) hardware. This might include documents that are locally stored and regularly accessed, or documents that are quickly accessible online through a service like Google Drive (see our Google Drive review). Cold storage is the opposite; this is data that you want to keep (probably off site and on slower equipment), but you rarely need to access, meaning cold data is less expensive ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Enterprise AWS customers are often managing many accounts under a payer account, and sometimes accounts are closed before Reserved Instances (RI) or Savings Plans (SP) are fully used. Manually tracking account closures and requesting RI and SP migration from the closed accounts can become complex and error prone. This blog post describes a solution for automating the process of requesting migration of unused RI and SP from closed accounts that are linked to a payer account. The solution helps reduce manual work and loss of unused RI and SP due to human error. The solution automatically detects newly ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. When building applications with the Amazon Chime SDK, you can now engage end users who don’t have your mobile app installed, don’t have access to a computer, or prefer the familiar experience of making a phone call. For example, a telehealth application could offer a dial-in phone number so patients have another way to join an online consultation with their doctor. In another example, a distance learning application could use PSTN audio to integrate a classroom speaker phone for hybrid learning. The speakerphone lets students, attending virtually from home, easily communicate with the teacher and other students ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. To get started, customers can configure a Firewall Manager security policy from their Firewall Manager dedicated security administrator account. The security policy should specify one or more set of Network Firewall rules along with the accounts, OUs and VPCs in which the rules should be deployed. Once configured, Firewall Manager will automatically create a Network Firewall with the sets of rules, deploying an endpoint in a dedicated subnet for every availability zone containing public subnets, in the accounts and VPCs you specify. At the same time, any changes to the centrally configured set of rules are automatically ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Alena Tsishchanka. Today’s customer really expects a truly extraordinary customer experience. That means that your company, your brand and the experiences you provide are not just in competition with people in your category. They’re in competition with people like Amazon, Uber and Starbucks, who have managed to make the mobile device a one-click ordering platform for convenience and extraordinary experiences. Are you winning the price war or gaining the customer's trust? Winning the price war or gaining the customer's trust? The importance of data In pursuing customer trust, many of you are really struggling because most ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. A 2015 Fortune Magazine article titled “Trust is the most powerful currency in business” shows a picture of two hands-shaking. Roll the calendar forward five years when artificial intelligence and advanced analytics are increasingly pervasive, the entities involved in forming “trust” have evolved to include machines. As the data available to the insurance industry continues to balloon, lack of trust in data and algorithms is a major hindrance to further innovation and transformation. This article discusses shifts underpinning the insurance business that AI will drive and the corresponding trust challenges. The desire to expand AI is largely financial ... Read More