Amazon lures customers with Chime pricing switch

AWS Digest A roundup of AWS content from TechTarget's network |March 19th, 2018 FEATURED STORY Amazon changes Chime pricing to try to win market share by Jonathan Dame, News Writer AWS switched Amazon Chime pricing to a usage model to lure businesses away from rivals Slack, Microsoft Teams and Cisco Spark. (SearchUnifiedCommunications.com) Advertisement NEWS   Cost and compliance deter users from public clouds Hyper-converged server provider Nutanix argues that Azure and AWS are not the best options for running predictable workloads. (Computer Weekly)   How IT departments can cut back cloud spending In this guest post, Richard Blanford, managing director of cloud services provider Fordway, shares his top tips on what IT departments can do to curb public cloud overspend. (Computer Weekly) EXPERT ADVICE   Warm up to data science tools Follow this data science experiment, which features deep learning career data, to both get your hands dirty with the technology and learn more about the profession. (SearchAWS.com)   Get to the bottom of your Block Store performance woes Amazon EBS performance issues include storage network availability, stuck volumes and I/O latency. Here's how to fix these common problems. (SearchAWS.com)   Compare options for local serverless functions AWS SAM Local and Serverless Framework open up new offline development capabilities, enabling IT teams to bring and test serverless on premises. (SearchAWS.com)   Keep tight reins on app traffic with canary tests New AWS capabilities for canary deployments include a traffic shifting feature in AWS Lambda and API stage testing in Amazon API Gateway. (SearchAWS.com)   How one compromised root account can shutter a business IT teams must make AWS root account security a top priority, as the shared responsibility model leaves businesses on the hook to protect accounts. (SearchAWS.com)   Alibaba sets its sights on the US Alibaba Cloud services continue to rival top vendors in the IaaS market. Expert David Linthicum explores the China-based provider and its similarities to AWS. (SearchCloudComputing.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 2018 TechTarget. All rights reserved.