Archive for the tag 'Web Services'

Amazon Cloud is now FISMA certified: Joins Google and Microsoft

The Amazon Cloud has now classed as being FISMA certified. FISMA is an acronym for Federal Information Security Management Act. FISMA sets security requirements for federal IT systems. and is a required certification for US federal government projects. This is the third set of certifications Amazon has recently announced coming on top of VPC ISO [...]

Amazon – what is coming soon, and what is not !

We had a meeting with Amazon in the UK recently and covered off some off the pressing issues that we wanted to speak about and also learnt some other of what Amazon have lined up. First, what is not going to happen anytime soon: – From what we heard Amazon are not going to resolve [...]

Amazon Elastic MapReduce now available in Europe

From the Amazon Web Services Blog:  Earlier this year I wrote about Amazon Elastic MapReduce and the ways in which it can be used to process large data sets on a cluster of processors. Since the announcement, our customers have wholeheartedly embraced the service and have been doing some very impressive work with it (more on this [...]