Amazon AWS … What Happened?

Amazon Web Services has issued a full apology and technical explanation after a 15-hour outage in its North Virginia data region took thousands of major platforms offline, exposing the internet’s heavy dependence on a handful of US cloud providers. What Happened? The incident began late on Sunday 19 October, when engineers at Amazon’s US-East-1 data…

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X-Day February 15th – Prepare For GDPR

Network services provider EfficientIP has warned businesses that, in reality, February 15th is the last day that organisations can ensure their real-world compliance with GDPR. I Thought May 25th Was The Deadline? May 25th is the actual date that companies and organisations need to ensure that they are compliant with GDPR. However, the point that…

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