Twitter and other social media sites were abuzz yesterday about an Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) outage in the eastern U.S. region that reportedly caused problems with several major Web sites.
Microsoft doesn't provide revenue numbers for its Azure cloud service, but in other metrics an exec claimed it has an edge over Amazon Web Services -- specifically in size measured by the number of regions in which the services operate and in hybrid offerings.
Amazon Web Services announced it was adding a new option to store infrequently accessed data at a lower cost on Amazon Simple Storage (S3) instances.
Alteryx Inc. announced in-database data blending with the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) Redshift data warehousing service as part of its updated flagship data blending and analytics product.
Apple's new-age TV moves garnered all the headlines yesterday, but slipping in under the radar last week was a pre-emptive strike by Amazon Web Services, which acquired a pioneer in "software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery."
It's all cleared up now, but a developer last week was surprised to be hit with a $6,500 bill from Amazon Web Services after being victimized by bitcoin miners who used an Amazon access key they found in code mistakenly hosted in a public GitHub repository.
Hybrid cloud analytics company Cloud Cruiser today announced a new tool that gathers usage and cost metrics, serving up analytics from Amazon Web Services and other clouds.
Announced today, a new service from OneCloud Software for VMware-based environments uses the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) cloud as a virtual disaster recovery datacenter.
Addressing the burgeoning enterprise "mobile-first" focus, Amazon Web Services has added a mobile certification that recognizes competency in that field for members of its AWS Partner Network.
Ravello Systems today announced two offerings that provide VMware-based services on public clouds, including Amazon Web Services.
MapR Technologies Inc. today announced its Apache Hadoop distribution is available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, adding another Big Data option for Amazon cloud customers.
Managed cloud company Rackspace for the first time officially revealed it's planning a managed service for Amazon Web Services, its market-dominating rival in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) space.
A "configuration error" caused this week's Amazon Web Services outage, according to the company's Service Health Dashboard.
Alert Logic Inc. announced a native cloud vulnerability and configuration management solution to bolster the built-in security functionality found in the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) cloud.
Amazon Web Services today announced it was adding support to test iOS apps in its device farm, a cloud-based repository that lets mobile devs try out their programs on a variety of real-world form factors.
Amazon Web Services Inc. yesterday announced a new preview software development kit for Xamarin, which lets developers target iOS, Android and Windows platforms with one C# code base.
Amazon Aurora, Amazon Web Services' bid to streamline the traditional relational database model, has left the preview stage.
Amazon.com's cloud business is booming.
After going "all in" with Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) in April, MicroStrategy Inc. has announced that its business intelligence (BI) platform is now generally available.
Microsoft is aiming to "win every single deal" against its top cloud competitors, said Microsoft COO Kevin Turner on Wednesday.