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It's becoming more of a two-horse race in the cloud computing arena, as a new RightScale State of the Cloud report reinforces other studies that show Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) dwarfing competitors in market share, though No. 2 Microsoft Azure is narrowing the gap. "Azure continues to grow quickly and reduce the AWS lead, especially among enterprises," says the " RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report ," this year published by Flexera, which acquired RightScale last year but which is continuing the eight-year tradition of publishing the report. "Overall Azure adoption grew from 45 to 52 percent to narrow the gap with AWS," the report said. "As a result, Azure adoption has now reached 85 percent of AWS adoption, up from 70 percent last year." [Click on image for larger view.] Public Cloud Adoption - Enterprise  (source: Flexera). Furthermore, "Azure continues to catch up with AWS overall especially among enterprises, where

Lambda@Edge Lambda@Edge  is a new Lambda-based processing model that allows you to run functions in response to various  Amazon CloudFront  events—in AWS locations that are closer to the end user. It can modify CloudFront requests and responses and has many practical use cases, including: Creating new HTTP responses that redirect unauthenticated users to login pages. Inspecting cookies in order to rewrite URLs to different versions of websites for testing purposes. Inspecting headers and authorized tokens for access control before deciding whether to forward a request. Adding, deleting, and modifying headers. Rewriting URL paths to redirect users to different locations, depending on need. To use Lambda@Edge, simply write a piece of code (AWS offers  several examples for Lambda@Edge functions) and set up the trigger to be a specific CloudFront event. After the trigger is set, your function will be replicated to multiple AWS edge locations. These locations are part of the  AW