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 …
Amazon acquires voice recognition firm: report
Amazon appears to have quietly acquired Yap, a speech recognition start-up company, fueling speculation that the online giant is getting …
Amazon unveils Kindle Fire, its entry into the tablet fray
Amazon unveiled its tablet computer, the US$199 Android-based Kindle Fire, yesterday during a Manhattan launch event. The Wi-Fi-only tablet has …
Amazon redesigning site for tablets, report says
Online retailer Amazon.com is reportedly redesigning its Web site, which sells everything from books to electronics and handbags, with a …
Amazon steps up service security for government agencies
Amazon is stepping up the security and access features of its cloud services in an effort to attract more government …
Amazon launches free Kindle Cloud Reader app for Web browsers
Amazon yesterday introduced the free Kindle Cloud Reader application, which allows users to access Kindle books instantly from a Web …
Amazon’s Android e-store inferior: Apple
Apple this week called Amazon’s Appstore for Android “inferior” as it urged a federal court to block the online retailer …
Amazon adds identity management to Web console
The Amazon Web Services Management Console can now handle Identity and Access Management (IAM) features offered in its cloud, the …
Configuration error lead to cloud outage: Amazon
Amazon has released a detailed postmortem and mea culpa about the partial outage of its cloud services platform last week …