AWS Summit 2016 AWS Summit 2016

As the world’s dominant public cloud provider, Amazon Web Services is playing an increasingly important role for enterprises as they reshape both their IT and the wider business.

Every year, at the AWS Summit in Sydney, the company showcases how its Australian customers are using cloud services in new and innovative ways.

iTnews is an exclusive media partner of the 2016 Sydney Summit. We have highlighted the most innovative and game-changing deployments.

Dev like Netflix: Top tips from the world's savviest engineers

Dev like Netflix: Top tips from the world's savviest engineers

Monkeys, canaries and "virtually" blowing stuff up.
Paris Cowan Dec 12 2016 6:30AM Training & Development
Adelaide City Council's bulldozer approach to the cloud

Adelaide City Council's bulldozer approach to the cloud

Infrastructure boss bans lift-and-shift.
Paris Cowan Dec 8 2016 1:30PM Strategy
Building the 'biggest database ever' in AWS

Building the 'biggest database ever' in AWS

Petabytes and petabytes of Wall St trades in the public cloud.
Paris Cowan Dec 8 2016 6:00AM Financial Services
McDonald's brings new ecommerce platform to Oz

McDonald's brings new ecommerce platform to Oz

Internally-built system to crunch millions of transactions every hour.
Paris Cowan Dec 5 2016 6:55AM Software
AWS customers to get free DDoS protection by default

AWS customers to get free DDoS protection by default

Free tier will block '96 percent' of attacks.
Paris Cowan Dec 2 2016 6:45AM Security
Only room for a few players in cloud market: AWS' Jassy

Only room for a few players in cloud market: AWS' Jassy

Boss says trillions of dollars are up for grabs.
Paris Cowan Dec 1 2016 2:25PM Strategy
AWS opens up Lex chatbot builder

AWS opens up Lex chatbot builder

Uses Alexa deep learning technologies.
Juha Saarinen , Paris Cowan Dec 1 2016 9:48AM Storage
BP turns its back on hybrid cloud

BP turns its back on hybrid cloud

Says private cloud looks, smells too much like on-premise.
Paris Cowan Dec 1 2016 6:30AM Strategy
AWS' 100PB truck will move your data to the cloud

AWS' 100PB truck will move your data to the cloud

Scales Snowball to container-size proportions.
Paris Cowan Dec 1 2016 6:21AM Hardware
AWS rival Alibaba to open Sydney data centre

AWS rival Alibaba to open Sydney data centre

Bid for global cloud domination.
Allie Coyne Nov 22 2016 11:29AM Software
AWS will power VMware's new cloud service

AWS will power VMware's new cloud service

Expected to be ready by mid next year.
Juha Saarinen Oct 14 2016 8:44AM Storage
Oracle starts price war with AWS to close the gap

Oracle starts price war with AWS to close the gap

Claims it has the tech to overtake cloud leader.
Allie Coyne Sep 19 2016 1:25PM Hardware
How Seek's dev team hit 400 new deployments a month

How Seek's dev team hit 400 new deployments a month

Four years of pain that resulted in lots of gain.
Paris Cowan Sep 12 2016 9:00AM Software
Google lets three enterprise cloud databases loose

Google lets three enterprise cloud databases loose

Promises better performance than AWS.
Juha Saarinen Aug 18 2016 10:35AM Storage
Cloud sales surge pushes up Amazon earnings

Cloud sales surge pushes up Amazon earnings

AWS the star performer.
Staff Writers Jul 29 2016 9:08AM Software
Xen patches critical guest privilege escalation bug

Xen patches critical guest privilege escalation bug

'Bunker buster' flaw mirrors older vulnerability.
Juha Saarinen Jul 29 2016 9:00AM Security
How REA Group weathered the AWS cloud outage

How REA Group weathered the AWS cloud outage

Independent systems in multi-region architecture.
Allie Coyne Jun 20 2016 12:00PM Software
Samsung buys AWS rival Joyent

Samsung buys AWS rival Joyent

Containers and Node.js company seeks scale to compete.
Juha Saarinen Jun 16 2016 3:44PM Storage
Failure in power redundancy triggered AWS Sydney outage

Failure in power redundancy triggered AWS Sydney outage

Post-mortem of weekend problems.
Allie Coyne Jun 9 2016 2:23PM Software
Gap Inc takes to cloud to optimise clothing price

Gap Inc takes to cloud to optimise clothing price

Reveals system architecture.
Ry Crozier Jun 8 2016 6:45AM Software

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