Amazon Web Services News & Articles

Amazon's new AWS Storage Gateway helps connect businesses' on-premises software appliances with cloud-based data storage to better integrate local and AWS-based apps and data with a range of backup options.

There is a big huge not exactly new player in the NoSQL market. Amazon has brought DynamoDB back. Dramatic pause. Dynamo was NoSQL before there was a NoSQL.

At CrowdConf in San Francisco this week, crowdsourcing and social CRM came together. CrowdEngineering announced that its self-service platform, Crowd4Self, is now integrated with Amazon Mechanical Turk, the Amazon marketplace for work.

Google has made several announcements that could increase the pressure on other enterprise cloud vendors. New service level agreements, lower cloud storage pricing and a new relational database service might give Google the momentum to move from the developer ranks to true enterprise class.

Amazon Web Services (news, site) is taking more even more steps to increase its competitiveness in the enterprise market. The company announced three new offerings that should make AWS cloud products even more attractive to enterprise buyers.

See what happened was… The entire internet and traditional media have constantly focused on the most talked about technology outage since the airline reservation system crashed a decade ago: cloud failure. Now that Amazon's EC2 service is back up and an apology has been issued, let the hindsight discussions begin. Here's a quick round-up of mea culpa analysis including reimbursement details.

Acquia (news, site), the commercial open source company offering Drupal Web CMS (news, site) support, products and services, has been busy solidifying its position as the first option everyone thinks of any time the words "cloud" and "Drupal" are used together.

Amazon AWS (news, site) can be a tricky beast to track, but the company has announced a service to monitor resources and provisioning.

The announcements over the past week of two security solutions from CipherCloud and Vormetric are the latest releases that aim to convince enterprises that their data will be safe in the cloud, both public and private.

Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB) now have another cloud option – and it’s open source. Evonence has launched a software-as-a-service solution built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides users with popular open source products as pre-configured, pre-deployed ready-to-use-solutions. Just purchase the service, and like sea monkeys, you have instant goodness.

It didn’t take long for treasures to start emerging from Amazon’s recently announced Elastic Beanstalk. eXo (news, site) has released an integrated development environment (IDE) for Elastic Beanstalk -- developed for the cloud, in the cloud. The IDE allows developers to access, view, edit and commit their code from any browser and deploy their applications with a single click. It’s not a golden-egg laying hen, but AWS developers will still appreciate it.

Amazon added support for Adobe Flash Media Server 4 (news, site) on its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Amazon believes that Cloud services are the future. They believe it so much, in fact, that starting November 1st, new AWS customers are being offered a free year of usage on the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). 

Amazon (news, site) provides faster data transfer to and from its cloud-based services thanks to the latest release of the AWS Import/Export for Simple Storage Service.

Of course, right when we hint at Google's lack of storage options, the company goes and announces Google Storage for Developers. The RESTful cloud service is another layer of the Web giant's storage and networking infrastructure, and competes directly with Amazon S3.