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Summit Brings New Directions for AWS

Here's the roundup coming out of the keynote presentation by CTO Werner Vogels in New York.

Xplenty Aims Analytics as a Service at Amazon S3 Storage

Data integration specialist Xplenty today announced its new Analytics-as-a-Service offering for analyzing and querying files on the Amazon Simple Storage Service, which provides highly scalable object storage.

Build Your Own AWS SDK for JavaScript

Amazon Web Services announced an software development kit builder tool that lets users specify the configuration of the AWS SDK for JavaScript in the browser to meet their own needs and reduce download size.

Red Hat Puts Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA on AWS

Red Hat has placed its Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA on the Amazon Web Services cloud to provide more options for running Big Data workloads.

AWS Moving to Its Own Simplified Encryption

With Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption facing security flaws and a bloated code base, Amazon Web Services will be moving to its own implementation, which it has just open sourced.

Startup Snowflake Launches Cloud-Based Data Warehouse Service on AWS

Former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia has launched on AWS a cloud-based data warehouse service that it claims will significantly extend the limits of traditional analytics platforms.

Oracle Singles Out AWS in Announcing Cloud Archive Storage

"Our new Archive Storage service goes head-to-head with Amazon Glacier and it's one-tenth their price," feisty chairman Larry Ellison said.

AWS Joins Effort To Standardize Container Technology

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) is teaming up with a host of software container industry players to bring some order and standardization to the increasingly popular technology.

Azure Challenges AWS in Wooing Startups

In the ongoing market positioning moves among leading cloud computing providers, Microsoft has offered a tilt at Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) by increasing its benefits offered to startup companies who adopt the Azure platform.

Spark Support, Enterprise SQL Server Added to Amazon Cloud

The Amazon cloud is all about data lately, having just added support for the white-hot Apache Spark project for Big Data analytics and a SQL Server Enterprise Edition machine image offering.

AWS Lambda Functions Opened Up to Java

Amazon Web Services announced that cloud developers can now use Java for writing Lambda functions, which provide event-driven functionality while taking care of needed compute resources.

Next-Gen Amazon EC2 Instances Launched

Amazon Web Services Inc. has unveiled new general purpose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.

Free Mesosphere Datacenter OS on AWS Exclusively

Cloud computing startup Mesosphere announced the general availability of its Datacenter Operating System (DCOS), of which a free community edition is available only on the Amazon Web Services cloud for now.

AWS Responds to Calls for Energy Use Transparency

Company responds to debate about energy use and environmental impact following negative Greenpeace report.

Alibaba Challenges AWS in Cloud Computing

The dominance of Amazon Web Services isn't deterring new competitors from entering the public cloud computing arena, with giant e-commerce company Alibaba Group being the latest to join the fray.

Go Language SDK Now in AWS Developer Preview

Amazon Web Services has taken another step in the process of developing an official SDK for the Go programming language with the release of a developer preview.

Kinesis Simplifies Streaming Data Capture

Amazon Kinesis, the Big Data streaming analytics tool on the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) cloud, has received several updates, including a new simplified capture mechanism.

HP Helion Update Supports AWS-Compatible Private Clouds

HP today announced an update to its flagship enterprise cloud computing software will support private cloud deployments compatible with the Amazon Web Services public cloud platform.

EMC Arms Itself with Virtustream To Challenge AWS

Recent reports that Amazon Web Services Inc. dwarfs its cloud computing rivals isn't keeping competitors such as EMC from expanding their portfolios to challenge the market leader.

AWS Now Supported by Microsoft StorSimple

Microsoft last week updated its StorSimple storage management product to include support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenStack.

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