Amazon is keeping busy as the e-retailing company is reportedly prepping to release four new tablets and a smartphone. Amazon …
Amazon cloud hit by real clouds, also knocking out Instagram, Pinterest
Digital cloud services aren’t immune to the impact of real clouds, and that meant some bad news this weekend for …
Amazon pitches MySQL in the cloud for $19 a month
Amazon Web Services has introduced a micro version of its cloud-based database service RDS running MySQL and priced from US$19 …
Amazon moves to make it easier to cut cost of cloud-based batch jobs
Amazon Web Services has integrated configuration templates and auto-scaling features with its Spot Instances offering in an effort to make …
SAP offers mobile device management on Amazon's cloud
SAP’s Afaria mobile device management tool is now available on Amazon Web Services’ cloud, offered as a way to make …
Amazon Web Services helps users avoid bill shock
Amazon Web Services users can now start receiving billing alerts that help them continuously monitor their cloud costs, the company …
SAP certifies Business All-in-One for Amazon Web Services
SAP has certified its Business All-in-One ERP (enterprise resource planning) application for cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services, the companies …
Amazon Web Services simplifies creation of private clouds
Amazon Web Services has made it possible to create private clouds using CloudFormation, which automatically creates stacks of resources described …
Amazon CTO: startups lead the way in big data analytics
Startups and small companies are stealing a march on their larger enterprise counterparts by employing analytics at the heart of …
Amazon CTO: You should be able to ‘walk away’ from cloud providers
One of the core philosophies related to Amazon Web Services’ market-leading suite of infrastructure as a service products is that …
Amazon cloud accessed daily by a third of all internet users
The era of cloud hyper-giants, providers so big and so critical to the delivery of information and commerce, is clearly …
Amazon releases staggering storage figures
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has outlined the rapid growth of its Simple Storage Service (S3), which it says now holds …
Amazon expands cloud-based live streaming functionality
Amazon has added the ability for CloudFront to stream live content to Apple iOS devices and Microsoft Silverlight clients, the …
Amazon may provide Indian cloud services over Tata infrastructure
Amazon could be preparing to launch cloud services in India, after it emerged that the company has been buying up …
Amazon comes out on top in cloud data transfer speed test
If your enterprise finds itself needing to transfer a lot of data in the cloud, beware: depending on where the …
Amazon to acquire warehouse automation company Kiva Systems
Amazon has agreed to buy Kiva Systems, a company specialised in automated materials handling in warehouses, the online retailer announced …
Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2, researcher estimates
Although most end users never get a clear view of the infrastructure underlying the services they consume via Amazon’s Elastic …
Amazon expands integrated status monitoring
Amazon Web Services has added the ability to monitor the status of storage volumes on EBS (Elastic Block Store), the …
Google and Amazon cut prices of cloud services
Both Google and Amazon have reduced the prices of their respective cloud-based services. Google has cut the price of its Cloud …
Amazon automates business processes with new cloud service
Amazon Web Services has launched Simple Workflow Service (SWF), which will allow enterprises to automate business processes across both cloud-based …