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According to a new survey of Python developers, respondents don't always use a cloud platform, but when they do, it's usually Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS). The  Python Developers Survey 2018  polled more than 20,000 developers from more than 150 countries last fall, resulting in this key takeaway: "55 percent of the Python users who use cloud platforms prefer AWS. Google Cloud Platform comes in second, followed by Heroku, DigitalOcean, and Microsoft Azure. About a third of the respondents don’t use any cloud solutions." [Click on image for larger view.] Top Cloud Platforms  (source: Python Software Foundation) "Along with the popular cloud platforms listed above, we identified that OpenStack and Linode got 6 percent each, OpenShift 3 percent, and Rackspace 2 percent," the report continued. Other cloud-related takeaways in the report include: 47 percent of respondents said that when running code in cloud production environments, they do it in: vi...

Choosing a public cloud service provider (CSP) has become a complex decision. Today, it’s no longer a question of which option you should work with, but rather, how to achieve optimal performance and distribute risk across multiple vendors—while containing cloud compute and storage costs at the same time. In a  recent Virtustream/Forrester survey  of more than 700 cloud decision makers, 86% of respondents said that their enterprises are deploying workloads across more than one CSP. We learn from the same survey that the prime motivation for adopting a multi-cloud strategy is to improve performance, followed by cost savings and faster delivery times. Today, the three leading CSPs are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with  respective market shares  of 62%, 20%, and 12%. In this post, the first in a two-part series, we will compare and contrast what AWS, Azure, and GCP offer in terms of storage, compute, and management to...

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) is offering free training courses to help customers learn about the new cloud services unveiled at last week's re:Invent conference. At the Las Vegas show, the company announced a bevy of new products and services and quickly followed up by providing 10-minute video courses to introduce the new offerings. The 15 free, individually available courses are organized into the following categories: Machine learning Satellite communications Global services Medical data analytics They have also been provided in a one-stop shop digital curriculum called  AWS re:Invent 2018 New Services . The new videos join a host of other new training resources recently made available. "We’ve expanded our digital training portfolio with free digital courses ranging from fundamental to advanced topics," the company said in a  post . "These on-demand courses cover a range of AWS services and categories for a total portfolio of 300+ courses, including ...