If you are a user like me, it may actually take you longer to make a cup of coffee than creating an AWS account. Go to the AWS EC2 login site to create an account. You’ve got 12 months of free tier service with your new account, and you can cancel if you decide it’s [...]

There are many companies selling goods or services on the AWS platform, and all have to solve an important question: How do I get paid? As with most elements of cloud services, AWS has you well covered; if anything maybe a little too well covered considering the rather large array of options and solutions they [...]

For quite some time I’ve been meaning to tinker around with using Amazon S3 for a backup tool.  Sure I’ve been using S3 backed Dropbox for years now and love it, and there are a multitude of other desktop client apps out there that do the same sort of thing with varying price points and [...]

We’ve talked about what to look for in purchasing SLAs based on your specific business needs, but why is having a managed services provider important to your business in the first place? As the adoption cycle continues to mature with cloud computing, more and more businesses are trying to understand the changes that will be [...]

2nd watch CEO, Kris Bliesner, recently wrote an article for Sandhill.com, an online destination for insights and business strategies for the software, cloud, mobile and Big Data ecosystem, comparing Amazon Web Services to the new Google Compute Engine. Kris discusses four important points to take into consideration when comparing the two: Pricing Operating System Flexibility Scale Functionality [...]