During the course of blogging over the past two+ years, I have gone back and forth about whether or not I should do “round up” posts each week on various hot spots I’m following. To date I’ve avoided doing so. However, I believe my decision has given this blog a pretty narrow scope. While I do spend most of my time working in the Microsoft technology stack (specifically cloud and mobile) I keep and close eye on the competition and occasional experiment with what they have to offer. This allows me to get a broader understanding of the market and help customers make the decisions that are right for them (which isn’t always Microsoft). Since my goal in creating this blog was to help foster a community of well rounded (not just Microsoft) developers I thought I would start sharing articles I find particularly interesting each week. I plan on compiling one post on cloud news (this one) and another on mobile news (coming later today). I’ll give it a month or so to see how it goes.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• New Osaka and Milan Edge Locations for Amazon CloudFront & Amazon Route 53
• Announcing AWS CloudFormation Support for VPC
• Microsoft delivers developer kit for linking Amazon web services to Windows Phone

force.com

• Create Custom Objects and Fields with Spring ’12 Schema
• Developer Content Contest #4 – Change Sets
• Mobile SDK Webinar Recording and Code
• Watch and Learn: New Videos for Spring ’12
• Cascade Insert with External Id Fields
• Developer Context #3 – Apex JSON

Google App Engine

• App Engine 1.6.2 Release

Rackspace

• Rackspace Startup Program Spotlight on Digital Harmony Games
• Criteria for Choosing a Business Email Solution
• CloudBerry Explorer Brings Cloud Files to Your Desktop
• Spring ’12: Overview of Single View State
• 10000 Jobs, and All Requiring Cloud Skills. Who Said Cloud Was Just About IT?

Windows Azure

• Need to Change Your Go-To-Market for SaaS? Here’s How One ISV Did It with Windows Azure
• Windows Azure Storage Emulator Account Name and Key
• IFS 360 Scheduling – Always Optimal on Windows Azure
• Real-World Windows Azure: Interview with Michael Ross, VP of Delivery at Aidmatrix
• Microsoft BizSpark to Offer Startups $60,000 in Cloud Services on Windows Azure
• Windows Azure Community news Roundup (Edition #4)
• New Webcast Series – Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Updates

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