AWS Announces New Service – Amazon Workspaces

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(0)

AWS today released a new service called Amazon Workspaces to provide a “fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud”. The main use cases for this service is to provide a high-quality workstation environment with relative ease.

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Preparing for AWS Certified Developer Beta Exam

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(4)

Amazon has now released Beta for AWS Certified Developer at Associate level and AWS Certified SysOps at Associate Level. Until now only the AWS Certified Solutions Architect was available at the Associate Level. But Amazon is aggressively working on their certification program and adding more certifications at a good pace.

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In the war of Titans for control of the cloud, who wins….for now?

Posted on October 11, 2013 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

It’s a common knowledge that, like most governments, USA government too is moving its data to cloud. So, CIA too is cloud bound. Hitherto, only giants such as IBM, Oracle and HP stood any chance of winning government bids.

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Sample Questions for Amazon Web Services Certified Solution Architect Certification (AWS Architect Certification) – Part II

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(25)

Here are some more Sample Questions* for AWS Certification for AWS Certified Solution Architect. Answers with explanations are at the bottom. If you have not yet attempted
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Five Reasons Why Cloud Architects Should Attain AWS Certification NOW!

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(5)

1. It is the only REAL Certification in the market

There are a lot of public cloud providers in the market especially at the infrastructure level. AWS is the undoubted market leader, and by a huge margin. The other popular ones are Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Rackspace, HP Cloud, VMware Cloud, etc. But none of these cloud providers have an architect level certification for their products.

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Will Amazon’s Data Warehousing Solution – “Amazon Redshift” Change the Game?

Posted on August 1, 2013 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Its core message comprises of price, performance and simplicity which AWS considers core principles for all its services. According to AWS “Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools.

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AWS Launches CloudFront Edge Locations in Mumbai and Chennai

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(1)

THIS IS HUGE!!! AWS finally has launched infrastructure in India. AWS today announced the launch of CloudFront edge locations in Mumbai and Chennai. This gives significant benefits to Indian customers and it also feels like a first step towards setting up bigger infrastructure in India. We are super excited

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Bhavesh talking about AWS certification at Bangalore AWS Users Group

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(1)

Hello!! I will be talking about AWS Solutions Architect Certification at AWS Users Group Bangalore Meetup on 1st June. Please join if you can.

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Sample Questions for Amazon Web Services Certified Solution Architect Certification (AWS Architect Certification) – Part I

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(41)

Recently I took the AWS Solution Architect Certification and cleared it. My previous blog post was general information about AWS Certification and can be found here. This blog post is about some Sample Questions* for AWS Certification for AWS Certified Solution Architect.

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Intel is getting ready to join the cloud computing race?

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(0)

I have long said publicly that Intel will have to enter the public cloud market. The reasons are quite simple. There was a time when majority of the hardware was bought by individuals, or smaller and medium size companies. As these entities had limited bargaining power, Intel was able to get high margin for their hardware products.

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