Betsy Amy-Vogt

Betsy Amy-Vogt is a staff writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. A digital nomad before the term existed, Betsy started her writing career at a tech startup in Austin, Texas, before taking her laptop off around the globe. When not writing tech news blogs or working on her latest sci-fi fantasy novel, she volunteers at Hekab Be bilingual library and community center in Akumal, Mexico. Got news? Tweet it to @siliconangle.

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Automated reasoning versus machine learning: How AWS provides secure access control without data

By embracing diversity, humanity finds greater strength. Our differences mean we can specialize, using our unique talents to excel in the areas to which we are most suited. This is as true for intelligence as for physical attributes. One person may solve complex algebraic equations for fun but care less about which political party is in ...
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Serverless: It’s how IT gets done. But what is it?

Serverless is a concept that is often misunderstood and definitely misused. First coined with Amazon Web Services Inc.’s launch of Lambda, the term is rapidly becoming a catch-all buzzword for various technologies, compute models, operational constructs, and architectural patterns. This capricious usage can be frustrating to experts who have worked with serverless since the beginning. ...

Get ready for cultural upheaval: Businesses learn that becoming digital means transforming in more ways than one

The problems in traditional workplace culture aren’t new. Today’s compartmentalized workplace has its roots in the mechanization and standardization of the industrial revolution, when workers were regarded very differently than they are today. But the slowness and lack of cooperation and communication brought about by silo’ed departments, top-down management, and poor customer understanding come into sharp ...

Q&A: ExtraHop makes sure companies don’t get caught napping on cloud-security watch

Billions have been sunk into the data security market, and cloud leader Amazon Web Services Inc. continues to reassure its customers that cloud security is “the highest priority.” It offers services such as Security Hub. But despite the extreme focus on protection, no one is relaxing on security watch just yet. “I can assure you ...

Amazon Business brings procurement into the digital era

Everyone knows (and loves) Amazon Prime for its fast, free shipping and wealth of associated benefits.  Lesser known is that Amazon has a Business platform that offers similar benefits to help companies simplify the procurement process. “Corporate procurement is really hard and cumbersome,” said David Stout (pictured), head of global alliances and partnerships of Amazon ...

Amazon Marketplace evolves to meet next-generation enterprise demands

Data is the driving asset behind the digital era. That’s great for businesses that create masses of data during their normal operations. But who would you turn to if you needed a source for trustworthy data for sale? The answer is a new solution from Amazon Web Services Inc., according to David McCann (pictured), vice president of AWS migration, ...

Sumo Logic and AWS CloudTrail wrestle data deluge into usable insights

Success in the digital economy requires smarts, but not the kind of smarts picked up in school. These educated insights come from the high-level continuous intelligence provided by artificial-intelligence and machine-learning tools. “The challenge is the tsunami of data that’s being generated: how to decipher what is an important aspect and what’s not,” said Ramin ...

Q&A: Veeam leverages AWS S3 immutable backup in upcoming V10

It’s a cloud conundrum. As hybrid-cloud strategies disperse data across multiple computing environments, users are demanding that interfaces become ever more intuitive and streamlined. Is it possible to keep data assets both easily accessible and completely secure? Swiss backup and recovery company Veeam Software Corp. gained its reputation for providing reliable, no-nonsense solutions in virtual environments. ...
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AWS opens the Fargate to Kubernetes

Cloud computing and containers go hand-in-hand. The mobility associated with the cloud is based on the ability for applications to run consistently across different environments. And containers make it possible to develop, maintain and troubleshoot apps in an isolated environment, reducing overall downtime and increasing security and portability. “It’s the right way to build applications ...

The energizing effect of Sandy Carter’s mission to create tech for good at AWS

Some people’s careers rise and fall. Some rise to a stable level and stay there. Others chart a career course that seems destined for the stratosphere. Amazon Web Services Inc. Vice President Sandy Carter (pictured) is the latter. When Carter was first featured in theCUBE’s Women in Tech column in April 2017, she was chief ...