CLOUD COMPUTING: Cutting through the fluff on AWS

CLOUD COMPUTING: Cutting through the fluff on AWS
The cloud - ever mysterious
Henry Burrell
There are many overused and confusing terms in technology but perhaps none so mystifying as ‘the cloud’. This obscure place where data magically resides means different things to consumers than to businesses. The former usually thinks of simple file storage, but for the latter it can be a cost-effective way to quickly build and scale digital services. To many, the cloud is backups of iPhone photos in iCloud. But for iCloud to work, Apple has a deal reportedly worth US$30 million per month with Amazon Web Services (AWS), th...

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