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AWS shakes up the private cloud infrastructure market with Outposts
/0 Comments/in Blog /by adminOutposts enable AWS to meet clients’ demand for private cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled at re:Invent in Las Vegas its new Outposts on-premises cloud infrastructure, which will enable AWS to become the sole cloud infrastructure provider for its clients. The underlying Outposts infrastructure closely resembles AWS’ public cloud data center infrastructure. Since the infrastructure […]
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Services weekly preview: Nov. 5-9, 2018
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