Other findings: Cloud computing spending is creeping up on traditional datacenter spending, and AWS is still at the top of the cloud provider business by a wide margin, though rivals are gaining ground.
Users of the Amazon Web Services IoT Platform can now access data from Salesforce.com to give field technicians and customer service reps more actionable insights into device data.
Fresh on the heels of a similar report from a different security company, Appthority has published investigation results that found nearly 43 TB of enterprise data was exposed on cloud back-ends, including personally identifiable information.
Amazon Web Services this week announced that it has greatly expanded access to its Amazon Lightsail virtual private server (VPS) solution.
MicroStrategy is now offering its flagship enterprise analytics platform on the Amazon Web Services cloud.
Amazon Web Services recently rolled out two new specialty exams to its certification program, as well as structured benefits and a centralized portal.
RedLock published a research report finding many security issues primarily caused by user misconfigurations on public cloud platforms, with Amazon Web Services figuring prominently.
Fugue enhanced its cloud infrastructure management platform, providing control reach that spans multiple Amazon Web Services accounts.
In a hiring coup, Amazon Web Services this week welcomed James Gosling to its ranks as a Distinguished Engineer.
GitHub Enterprise is now available on the Amazon Web Services cloud as an AWS Quick Start, a ready-made packaging of resources designed to easily deploy specific workloads.
Business software giant SAP is retrofitting its flagship cloud platform to interoperate with other major public clouds, starting with Amazon Web Services.
At its annual conference, Veeam Software announced a new availability solution for the Amazon Web Services cloud, developed in partnership with N2W Software.
Seven months after announcing a deal to integrate its infrastructure with Amazon Web Services, VMware this week entered into another deal with AWS' biggest cloud rival, Microsoft.
Amazon Web Services said its new console for managing Amazon S3 object storage resources is now generally available, following an opt-in trial of the tool.
The latest quarterly research report from Canalys shows Amazon Web Services is still the market-leading cloud provider, but Microsoft's Azure is coming on strong with a 93 percent growth rate.
Amazon Web Services has been continually upgrading its tools for converting database and data warehouse schemas and extracting/importing the housed data into AWS target data sources, yesterday announcing new SQL Server functionality.
Microsoft announced a raft of new cloud-based database offerings at this week's Build developer conference, pitting them directly against similar solutions from Amazon Web Services.
SIOS Technology Corp. has launched services for simplifying and accelerating the deployment of high availability SQL Server clusters in the Amazon Web Services cloud.
Amazon Web Services Inc. and Ionic have teamed up to provide a starter mobile app on GitHub that uses a pre-configured AWS Mobile Hub project to provide back-end services.
Kinetica's GPU-accelerated database is now available on Amazon EC2 P2 instances, which AWS describes as "the largest GPU-powered virtual machines in the cloud."