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AWS Database Migration Service Now Available

After a five-month testing period, Amazon Web Service's new Database Migration Service (DMS) is now ready for prime time.

Study Sees Azure Increasing Lead over AWS in IaaS

Spiceworks, which fosters a network of IT pros and associated tools, has published cloud computing research indicating the Microsoft Azure cloud is likely going to increase its lead in Infrastructure-as-a-Service usage over Amazon Web Services.

AWS Simple Storage Service Hits 10-Year Mark

It's been 10 years since Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) launched its Simple Storage Service (S3), ushering in a new era in enterprise IT.

Zoomdata Launches Visual Big Data Analytics on AWS

Zoomdata, specializing in Big Data visualization and analytics, today announced an Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) service for visual interaction with streaming or at-rest data from a variety of sources in the cloud or on-premises.

Hyperglance Provides AWS, OpenStack Infrastructure View in One Tab

Hyperglance announced the 4.0 version of its service that provides an interactive, 3D topology view of combined Amazon Web Services and OpenStack cloud infrastructure setups in one browser tab.

Nonprofits Reap AWS Cloud Benefits for Free

Amazon Web Services Inc. announced it is providing nonprofit organizations with free cloud computing products and services.

AWS Snowball Data Transfer Tool Now Exports Also

Amazon Web Services has added export functionality to its appliance-based Snowball data transfer tool.

SharePoint Enterprise Lands On AWS Marketplace

SharePoint Enterprise, Microsoft's jack-of-all-trades software for common business functions, is now available on the Amazon Web Services cloud.

Ericsson Enlists AWS for Telecom Service Provider Cloud Transformation

Telecom giant Ericsson is teaming up with Amazon Web Services in a wide-ranging effort to help service providers move to the cloud.

AWS Lambda Functionality Spreads to Other Clouds

Amazon Web Services was the first major public cloud provider to offer serverless, event-driven computing with Lambda, but two of its main competitors have now caught up -- and another company has announced a project to provide Lambda functionality on other clouds.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce for Big Data Analytics Is Updated

Amazon Web Services yesterday announced updates to its Amazon EMR service for Big Data analytics.

AWS Aggressively Positions Cloud as Parse Replacement for Mobile Developers

Amazon Web Services is all about scale, of course, and the cloud vendor is putting its scaling capabilities into play by aggressively wooing mobile developers who need a new back-end service for their apps now that the popular Parse platform is being shut down by Facebook in less than a year.

AWS Launches Game Development Services

Amazon Web Services today announced two new services designed to help professional game developers create cross-platform, cloud-connected games, providing a free front-end IDE, a game engine and a back-end server-side component.

Rivals' Higher Growth Rates Fail To Dent AWS Market Lead

Microsoft and Google are boasting higher growth rates for their respective cloud services, but as yet they have been unable to eat into the tremendous market share lead enjoyed by Amazon Web Services, according to new research from Synergy Research Group.

Array Networks Aims SSL VPN at AWS

Coming just a week after AWS simplified its Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security certificate management is a new SSL virtual private netowork solution introduced today by Array Networks.

AWS Beefs Up Developer Training

Amazon Web Services has improved its three-day developer training classes, adding support for more programming languages in practice labs and more coverage of dev-oriented AWS services, among other enhancements.

AWS Brightens Lackluster Q4 for Amazon

Amazon.com reported its fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday, and while the retail giant may have missed Wall Street estimates, its cloud business continues to boom.

New Disaster Recovery Options Feature AWS

With nearly three-quarters of companies reportedly "failing" at disaster recovery, new options to ease the process are continually emerging to work with the Amazon Web Services cloud, an ideal backup and recovery data store.

AWS Simplifies Web Site Security Certificates

Amazon Web Services is getting into the digital Web site security certificate business, launching a new service to simplify the process of using Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates, providing authentication and encryption.

Unisys Puts Micro-Segmentation Security on AWS Marketplace

Unisys has put its Stealth micro-segmentation security solution on the Amazon Web Services cloud, providing protection based on identity, not network topology.

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