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Business Insider: "Amazon calls a $350,000 truce on the cloud wars and joins a Google-born cloud project"
Business Insider: "Amazon calls a $350,000 truce on the cloud wars and joins a Google-born cloud project" August 11, 2017
If you can’t beat them, join them. That’s what Amazon Web Services (AWS), did when it officially joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) on Wednesday, just two weeks after Microsoft joined as well.

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TechCrunch: "AWS joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation" August 9, 2017
Rumor has it that Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform will soon launch its own Kubernetes-based container management service. Those rumors are getting a bit more concrete because AWS today joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF),...

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GeekWire: "Amazon Web Services chooses its Kubernetes path, joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation" August 9, 2017
Just weeks after Microsoft signaled its support for a key cloud computing industry foundation, Amazon Web Services has followed suit, joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a platinum member. .

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Fortune: "Amazon joins Google, Goldman Sachs, and Twitter in this Cloud Foundation" August 9, 2017
“CNCF executive director Dan Kohn said the broader story is that Kubernetes and containers are rapidly displacing virtualization as the go-to software deployment model”.

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Forbes: "Microsoft expands role in cloud by joining Cloud Native Computing Foundation" July 31, 2017
Microsoft has been steadily expanding its relationship with and involvement in the cloud in recent years. Microsoft’s philosophy has evolved – somewhat rapidly – from a more or less Microsoft-centric approach to a broadly inclusive strategy...

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Cloud Tech News: "Microsoft joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation, launches new container service" July 27, 2017
Microsoft has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a San Francisco-based organisation aiming at sustaining containers and microservices architectures, as a platinum member.

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DZone: "Free intro to Kubernetes course" July 15, 2017
The Linux Foundation & CNCF just introduced LFS158x – Introduction to Kubernetes, offered through edX.

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Geek Wire: "Chinese tech giant Alibaba joins key open-source cloud computing foundation" June 19, 2017
Kicking off a week in which it plans to encourage American businesses to invest in China, Alibaba Group announced plans to give something back to the cloud computing community: Alibaba Cloud is now a member of...

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GeekWire: "When standards aren’t standard: Inside a growing movement to shape the booming cloud industry" June 3, 2017
What’s the best way to shepherd the promising technologies underpinning a sea change in computing? The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is determined not to make the same mistakes as past tech industry standards-setting groups, favoring community...

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Container Journal: "CNCF aims to make Container Network Interface a standard" May 24, 2017
Container networking standards were advanced today following a unanimous decision by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to accept the Container Networking Interface (CNI) as one of the 10 container projects the consortium is committed to...