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AWS Furiously Fights Off Cloud Competitors

Amazon Web Services -- the original cloud computing platform unveiled nine years ago -- is furiously fighting off challengers to its sky supremacy with new products and services, tit-for-tat price cuts and constant innovation.

AWS Lambda Adds Mobile Dev Features

Amazon Web Services moved its AWS Lambda service into full production with new features added for mobile app development.

Desktop Apps Get AWS Makeover

Among numerous announcements at its recent summit, Amazon Web Services beefed up its desktop app services by providing a new marketplace to find apps and a tool to manage them.

Coming Soon: Amazon Elastic File System Storage

Amazon Web Services Inc. announced at its recent summit a new storage option a to work with multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances at the same time.

AWS Simplifies Machine Learning

Amazon Web Services announced a new machine learning service at its summit today, promising to simplify the technology.

More Enterprise Software Vendors Go 'All In' with AWS

Amazon Web Services today announced four new enterprise software vendors have gone "all in" with the Amazon cloud.

Amazon Offers Unlimited Cloud Storage for Almost Nothing

Amazon.com Inc. fired the latest volley in the cloud price wars this week by launching two unlimited cloud storage plans for very little cost.

Pivotal Adds One-Click AWS Integration

Pivotal Software added one-click integration with the Amazon Web Services cloud to its Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service offering.

Amazon Adds Unlimited Cloud Drive Plans

Amazon.com Inc. added two unlimited cloud storage plans to its Cloud Drive offering, upping the storage ante with competitors such as Microsoft and Google.

AWS Adds Satellite Imagery to Public Data Set

More than 85,000 government satellite images are now available for public consumption on the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) public data set.

Carpathia Takes On AWS Management

Carpathia released new software to manage Amazon Web Services cloud workloads in hybrid compute infrastructure scenarios along with its own hosted projects.

Study Ranks AWS Best for Cloud Software Development

Forrester Research recently ranked Amazon Web Services as the top public cloud platform for software development, appealing to a cross-section of programmer types.

Google Challenges AWS with Nearline Storage

Google Inc. launched a challenge to established cloud services players such as Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) with its recent introduction of a beta Nearline Storage service for storing data that needs to be kept available by enterprises but is rarely accessed.

Software AG Goes All in on AWS

Software AG announced it will move its entire cloud portfolio to the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) platform as part of its new "Transformation to the Cloud" initiative, designed to help enterprises identify and enact the best cloud strategies.

HP Helion Updates Include Eucalyptus AWS Cloud Tool

Hewlett Packard updated several components of its Helion cloud tools portfolio, including adding acquired technology in the form of the HP Helion Eucalyptus solution for creating private clouds compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS)

AWS Losing Mind Share, Study Says

Most cloud usage surveys indicate Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) is leading the pack, but a new one shows that the cloud champion is experiencing slower growth.

Oracle Linux Now Available on AWS Marketplace

Extending a longtime relationship, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announced that Oracle Corp. Linux is now available on its cloud platform marketplace.

Informal Survey Shows Azure Use Almost Equals AWS

According to an informal survey on a virtualization-specific Web site, consisting mostly of IT pros and executives familiar with cloud platforms, visitors are using Microsoft Azure almost as much as Amazon Web Services (AWS).

AWS Opens Up Certification for DevOps Engineers

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) has opened up its certification for DevOps engineers, making the exam public for the first time.

Study: Microsoft Challenging AWS Domination of Public Clouds

Amazon Web Services Inc. is still the dominant leader in the public cloud services provider space, but is being challenged by the Microsoft Azure offering, according to a new study.

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