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Amazon Web Services Public Cloud vs Private Cloud

Opinion on the benefits of Amazon Web Services as a Public Cloud provider as opposed to that of private clouds. Cloud House NZ's Leading AWS Provider.

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Which Cloud Infrastructure Provider Should You Use? And Why It's AWS

I’ll come right out and say it, 99.999999999 (eleven nines) percent of the time AWS is the right Cloud provider to use....

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We have a brilliant new website

Go to http://cloud.house you can take a look at it. We have all our new AWS products and services listed on there.

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The 7 most important   announcements from the AWS Summit in New York

This morning was the AWS New York summit, and they released enough new updates and products that it was appropriate to create a list to easily see the most important ones. So enjoy

A new API gateway, which is great for backend dev: This new pay-as-you-go service allows you to quickly and easily build and run application backends that are robust, and scalable http://buff.ly/1J75egN 

Improved identity management for SES: the ability to grant “send” permission to other AWS accounts or IAM users http://buff.ly/1JSKP4X 

An update to Auto Scaling which makes it more responsive with the addition of new scaling policies with steps.http://buff.ly/1J75koE 

A Glacier update which makes it compliant with more regulations with feature that allows you to lock your vault with a variety of compliance controls that are designed to support this important records retention use cases http://buff.ly/1KSW3Xa

CodeCommit a Git repo host, which works with existing tools yet implements Git in a scalable, redundant, and durable fashion so that your code and other assets will be safe and accessible. http://buff.ly/1D4azn2 

CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service for software an internal system that AWS have decided to make public went live today http://buff.ly/1D4aBLu

AWS service catalogue released a tool that will allow any IT department to deliver AWS-powered services to it’s users while maintaining consistency and control, it has been in beta and is now available http://buff.ly/1Sc11x5

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The left overs after shifting a new client to AWS (at Cloud House)

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CRM Video meetings are free to participants but subscribers to the service are charged per minute of data and provided a Dropbox-type arrangement for any recordings. A gig of data provides for four hours of HD video, Meek says. The call initiator can also import documents into a video call, which applications like Skype and FaceTime don’t allow. After being given access, the other party can then pinch, zoom and scroll through the document. (via Virtual Spectator founder takes on big boys of video conferencing :: Idealog :: the magazine and website of New Zealand creative business, ideas and innovation)

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Imagine going to check in at the airport and being greeted by your very own virtual assistant on the self-check screen – a friendly face so real you could be talking to someone over Skype. Artificial intelligence is here, and it could be seen in our airports within the next 18 months, thanks to two New Zealand companies recently signing a deal to develop interactive avatar technology for self-service check-ins around the world. BCS Group, an Auckland-based company providing baggage handling, self-service check-in and other technology to airports and airlines, has paired up with Oscar-winning Kiwi engineer Dr Mark Sagar to bring the self-service check-in experience to life. (via Real life avatars: At an airport check-in near you - soon :: Idealog :: the magazine and website of New Zealand creative business, ideas and innovation)

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Thread Sews Consistency Through the Fabric of the Internet of Things

Nest, Samsung, ARM, Freescale and three other companies have joined forces to form a group dedicated to solving some of the challenges around the Internet of Things. The non-profit is called Thread Group and they have designed and developed a protocol for the Internet of Things aimed at making the connected home much simpler and easier for users and developers alike.

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Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

— Stephen Fry (via lyblac)

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