Relive the top AWS news stories of 2017

AWS Digest A roundup of AWS content from TechTarget's network |January 8th, 2018 FEATURED STORY Catch up with the top AWS news stories of 2017 by David Carty, Site Editor Amazon was busy in 2017. See which new AWS features and services captured our readers' attention in our top five news stories of the year. (SearchAWS.com) Advertisement NEWS   IT departments clueless about AWS and Azure expenditures The complexity of procuring public cloud services means IaaS users often lack a sense of how much their cloud workloads actually cost. (Computer Weekly)   Cloud providers move to protect users from processor flaws Amazon, Google and Microsoft rush to fix chip flaws that could leave cloud customers at risk of having their data accessed or stolen by other users. (Computer Weekly) EXPERT ADVICE   A step-by-step look at Amazon QuickSight If your enterprise has moved data to AWS, this Amazon QuickSight tutorial can help kick-start your team's analytics and visualization efforts. (SearchAWS.com)   AWS continues quest for Oracle customers In the Oracle vs. AWS cloud battle, Amazon looks to reel in customers who are frustrated with lock-in and a lack of services and features. (SearchAWS.com)   Hidden AWS tool automates on-premises cloud servers The EC2 Run Command feature, if you can find it, is one server automation tool to rule them all. Here's how to use it. (SearchAWS.com)   Aurora addresses database management challenges Aurora Serverless and Multi-Master ease database scaling in AWS environments and push the envelope for other cloud database vendors. (SearchAWS.com)   Early adopters react to VMC on AWS cost, use cases Early adopters have found ways to put VMC on AWS to good use, from migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud to using it as a disaster recovery site. (SearchVMware.com)   Optimize data to keep Athena queries humming along Amazon Athena returns results from data queries in seconds -- as long as developers optimize that data. Here's how to improve query performance in Athena. (SearchAWS.com) About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from AWS Digest, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget Enterprise Applications Media Group, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2017 TechTarget. All rights reserved.