Amazon Web Services comes to Australia

TechRepublic Australia Wrapper TechRepublic Member | November 14, 2012

Editor's note It's been a big week in Australian news. Late last week, word came that Stephen Conroy was finally abandoning the idea for the clean-feed internet filter, and would instead force the ISPs to use Interpol's "worst-of" filter. That filter was already in place for Telstra and Optus customers. Then, on Tuesday, the worst-kept secret in network circles was announced, as Amazon confirmed that it is creating an AWS node in Sydney. Much of the pricing is comparable to Singaporean pricing, and reportedly the latency is amazing to use. I just wouldn't upload several terabytes of storage onto Amazon's S3 service located in Sydney, as the costs would escalate rather quickly. Have a good week, everyone! --Chris Amazon Web Services comes to Australia For Australians, the wait for a local AWS node is over. Read more Resource of the day Forbes: Managing Information for the Enterprise Data-related problems could be costing you more than $5 million annually. This report helps build a business case for establishing an EIM strategy and information management initiatives like DI, DQ, and MDM. Learn more now. Australia free from filter threat The Australian government has canned the idea of a mandatory internet filtering scheme. Read more FreeBSD takes another step toward GPL escape The Apple-backed Clang compiler is now the default compiler in FreeBSD. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   CIO50: And the winner is... The sixth annual CIO50 reveals the most influential technology chiefs in the UK, as voted for by CIOs. Read more No phone needed: Make calls from Gmail or Hangouts If you use Gmail or Google+ Hangouts, you can call any U.S. or Canadian phone number for free. Andy Wolber shows you how. Read more 10+ challenges facing the 'international' CIO IT leaders who are responsible for international operations face some extra issues, not all of which are tech-related. Here are some of the concerns you may encounter. Read more Fedora 18 release delayed for the seventh time The release of Fedora 18 has been delayed yet again. Why has this happened and what does it mean for the cutting edge test bed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Jack Wallen takes a look into the issue. Read more Adding Hyper-V Manager to Windows Server 2012 Evaluating Hyper-V is a critical to-do for virtualization administrators today. Rickatron shows a quick and easy step to manage Hyper-V from anywhere. Read more The complete guide to a Windows 8 clean installation Greg Shultz documents the entire Windows 8 clean install procedure so we have a roadmap to follow and know what to expect. Read more Featured multimedia   Five apps to help you mine valuable information from big data Brien Posey presents five apps he believes can help you mine valuable information from your organization. View on site Today's recommended downloads Live Webcast: The Future is Now - Key Steps to a Game-Changing Data Management Strategy (SAP) Grow Your Business by Building Consumer Trust (Symantec) What's New in Toad for Oracle 11.5 (Quest Software, now a part of Dell) The advantages of row and rack-oriented cooling architectures (APC by Schneider Electric) The Evolution of the Electronics Industry (IBM) Connect with TechRepublic The convergence of biological and computer viruses The difference between a biological virus and a computer virus is blurring. Learn how a researcher infected himself with a computer virus. TechRepublic newsletters   Get programming, mobile development, and design tips and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Software Engineer App Builder Web Designer IT Consultant

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