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Amazon Web Services is creating its very own space force for cloud computing

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services today unveiled a new business unit devoted to developing data infrastructure and cloud services for the aerospace and satellite industry — and headed by someone who helped set up the U.S. Amazon Web Services facilitates Capella Space’s catalog of satellite radar imagery. AWS Photo).

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Can IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna make the elephant dance again

CTOvision

Critics of IBM say the American tech icon went the hybrid cloud way because it lost the fight to become a public cloud hyper-scaler to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Hybrid clouds are a combination of privately-owned computer servers and networks and machines and services rented off the internet.

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Palo Alto Networks debuts cloud-native firewall service for AWS

Venture Beast

Palo Alto Networks has unveiled a new cloud-native firewall service for Amazon Web Services (AWS), aiming to simplify cloud network security. Read More.

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Project Kuiper plus AWS: How Amazon’s cloud and satellite internet ventures mesh

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services’ infrastructure, which includes satellite ground stations, could come in handy for supporting Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband constellation. “We’re benefited a bit at Amazon by having this very good and reliable cloud service called AWS,” Limp said. AWS Photo).

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Playstation Network, Steam, Banks, and More Knocked Offline by Massive Internet Outage

Gizmodo

A massive internet outage appears to have incapacitated services connected to droves of businesses, banks, government offices, and more, knocking a variety of popular websites and services offline. Read more.

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A company you’ve probably never heard of caused half the internet to go dark

Vox

Swaths of websites went down on Tuesday morning after an outage at the cloud computing services provider Fastly. Internet users were unable to access major news outlets, e-commerce platforms, and even government websites. Everyone from Amazon to the New York Times to the White House was affected.

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What CIOs Can Learn From An Upgrade Of Inflight Web Services

The Accidental Successful CIO

Airline CIOs are going to have to make some tough in-flight internet decisions Image Credit: Christopher Doyle. Since they could not be connected to the Internet when they were in flight , they were released from their obligations. What Does It Mean To Access The Internet From A Plane? With new satellites, this is all changing.