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AWS Joins Tech Giants in Making Renewable Energy Pledge

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. this week updated its sustainability page with this statement: "AWS has a long-term commitment to achieve 100% renewable energy usage for our global infrastructure footprint."

AWS Announces Changes to Partner Program Benefits

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. last week rolled out some changes to the AWS Partner Network, including an expansion of partner resources and the addition of programs aimed MSPs and SaaS-focused partners.

Amazon Launches 'AWS Lambda' and Docker Container Service

AWS unveiled the Amazon EC2 Container Service with Docker support during Thursday's keynote at the AWS re:Invent conference, taking place this week in Las Vegas.

AWS Unveils 'Aurora' Database Engine at re:Invent

Amazon Web Services Inc. rolled out a raft of new new services during Wednesday's re:Invent conference keynote, including the new Amazon Aurora relational database engine.

AWS Debuts DevOps Certification

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. on Thursday launched the new "AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional" certification.

Amazon Touts Another Strong Quarter for Cloud Biz in Earnings Report

Despite a poor showing for Amazon.com as a whole, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. maintained strong growth over its fiscal third quarter.

AWS Rolls Out Its Own Identity Management Service

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. on Tuesday launched the AWS Directory Service, an identity management solution for the cloud.

One-Fifth of Web Application Attacks Originate from AWS, According to Study

Datacenter security company Imperva has found that servers on Amazon Web Services (AWS) are the source of roughly 20 percent of all Web application attacks.

Cloud Storage Is Added to AWS Partner Network Competencies

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. this week introduced two new competencies to the AWS Partner Network (APN).

AWS To Team with AT&T for Secure Cloud Connectivity

AT&T Inc. on Thursday announced its plan to offer business customers secure and direct connections to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc.

AWS Reboot of EC2 Will Fix Xen Bug

Starting on Thursday evening, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) will be rebooting select Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances across all regions and availability zones.

AWS To Join Verizon Roster of Secure Cloud Connections

Telecom giant Verizon on Tuesday announced it is extending its Secure Cloud Interconnect (SCI) service to include Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS).

Cloudnexa and Partners Launch Bundled AWS Cloud Management Suite

Cloudnexa has partnered with Trend Micro Inc., Sumo Logic and AppDynamics to launch a consolidated cloud management suite for Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS).

Riverbed Upgrades AWS Storage Solutions

Riverbed Technology, which specializes in solutions that improve application and network performance, made several announcements recently aimed at storage, backup and recovery services for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Microsoft: We'll Match Any AWS Price Cuts

Top Microsoft cloud executive Scott Guthrie on Wednesday reiterated his company's commitment to match the Amazon Web Services (AWS) price cut for price cut.

After Trial, AWS To Reopen San Francisco 'Loft' for Developer Education

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. will open a brick-and-mortar store in San Francisco this fall as part of an effort to educate developers on its cloud services, the company announced last week.

AWS GovCloud First To Earn High-Level Federal Security Approval

The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has approved Amazon Web Services (AWS) to handle more sensitive data for the Department of Defense (DoD).

AWS Marketplace Gets Zend PHP Development Platform

Zend Technologies, curator of the PHP scripting language, recently made its PHP development platform available as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) via Amazon Web Services (AWS).

AWS Adds Multi-Factor Authentication to WorkSpaces

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS)added another layer of security to its Amazon WorkSpaces offering with the addition of multi-factor authentication.

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