eClub #38 July 2015 Hotel CBD Sydney Event
Amazon Web Services vs Microsoft Azure – Best Practices Revealed
Renee Brack MC and moderator
Speakers
Chy Chuawiwat – CEO (Offis Cloud Services)
Phanh Phengsavath – Operations Director (Offis Cloud Services)
Craig Allen – Founder (Offis Cloud Services)
Presentation Agenda
• Data centre locations – Global foot print
• Compute – CPU, RAM
• Storage – Size and speed
• Networking – VPNs/ DNSs etc.
• Database & Data Warehousing
• Other key services – Identity & Security
• Workload Placement Concepts
• Continuous Delivery
• Pricing
• Design Concepts
• Integration to on Premises

Hackers Release Thousands Of Amazon, Xbox Live and Hulu Plus Passwords
Account information, including passwords and credit card numbers, were released Friday for web services like Amazon.com, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and Hulu Plus. The list was posted by a group that claims to be associated with the hacking activists called “Anonymous.” Reuters

The information was released in a document posted on text storage service Ghostbin. It was inactive early on Saturday morning. The list included over 10,000 entries, including retailers like Walmart and Dell, video game services like EA Games, Origin.com and Twitch.TV, as well as login information for a number of subscription pornography sites like Brazzers.com. Credentials for online services for VPNCyberGhost and UFC TV were also listed.

On Thursday, the Lizard Squad claimed to have taken down Sony’s PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, Microsoft’s online game services.

Gamers complained that they could not use their accounts. Both Sony PlayStation and Xbox Live acknowledged that they were having service problems through their Twitter accounts and service pages. On Twitter, Lizard Squad took credit, claiming that the attacks were its biggest yet.

Lizard Squad said earlier that it planned to attack the gaming services on Christmas with a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack, in which servers are flooded with Internet traffic until they collapse under the load.