We have been following all the awesome product announcements at AWS re:Invent 2018 closely. Amazon has released a number of interesting new services and also big improvements to existing services. In this blog post we’ll take a quick look at the most interesting announcements from Clouden’s perspective, divided into four main topics. Serverless Applications…

If you have used Synthpedia Chat recently, you may have noticed issues with the Google Chrome browser not being able to connect to the chat. The technical reason for this is that Google has started to roll out their distrust of Symantec certificates, which was announced a year ago. Amazon’s default AWS IoT endpoints…

Clouden now offers a free 868 MHz LoRa gateway service in the central Helsinki area. If you have registered an IoT device on The Things Network, it will automatically use our gateway when it’s the closest one available. Our physical location is in Taka-Töölö, Helsinki. The gateway is installed indoors. If you are interested in…

We’ve updated our company logo and color scheme. The new styles are already in use on our main website and this blog. We will be gradually applying them to all our services in the near future. If you need to use our new logo somewhere, you can find it in the Clouden Press Kit.…

We spend a lot of effort in choosing the right technologies for our cloud services at Clouden. Over the years we have found Amazon Web Services to be a reliable provider of cloud platform services that scale in both performance and cost. Our strategy is to build web applications that have very low fixed…

Our pay-as-you-go web host monitoring service Clouden Ping is now in Public Preview! Clouden Ping monitors all your websites and sends email notifications to you when they fail. There is no monthly subscription payment – you only pay for the actual number of pings made. Clouden Ping lets you add up to 100 web…

We’ve had an exciting year and hope you had one, too! As you can see on our home page, our cloud service and application portfolio has been growing steadily and we’re very proud of everything we’ve released so far. This is, of course, just the beginning. For the upcoming year we have all kinds…

We have just released Billing Alerts for AWS, our new application for iOS and Android. It was developed to track Amazon AWS cloud usage costs in a simple way, by receiving notifications on the phone whenever the current billing amount increases by a chosen interval. For example, when using the default interval setting of…

Clouden is proud to announce that Clouden FM is now in Public Preview. Clouden FM is a fully managed YouTube Live streaming service that lets you run virtual radio stations in the cloud. All you need to do is upload your music as WAV files and enter your YouTube channel’s live streaming key. Clouden…

Clouden generally develops its services following a release cycle of (1) Internal Development, (2) Internal Testing, (3) Public Preview and (4) General Availability. Here are brief descriptions of these stages and their purpose. Internal Development Development starts when we have a new service concept we believe is worth implementing and offering to our customers.…