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Following this week’s Windows Azure announcement by Microsoft, the ball was in the competition’s court. And Yahoo! responded with a cloud-related announcement of its own.

Yahoo! announced that it will offer the Zimbra Collaboration Suite as a hosted solution for educational institutions. According to Zimbra, over 500 schools are already using Zimbra. This hosted solution is currently available exclusively to .edu’s. Who knows — maybe, if all goes well, the solution will expand its wings beyond the .edu market.

An integral part of Amazon’s cloud computing services is showing a sign of maturity, while adding a much anticipated element. The Elastic Compute Cloud (aka EC2), which facilitates a Linux server environment as a service for Web developers, has come out of beta.

Additionally, as previously rumored, Amazon.com has added an on-demand Windows Server environment to accompany the already existing OpenSolaris and Solaris Express Community Edition offerings.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) not only provides impressive storage, distribution, hosting and computing solutions for Web developers, but this Amazon subsidiary also offers remarkable pricing that has never before been seen. So, how does a company do much better than this? Well, how about offering even cheaper prices?

We’ve recently discovered two resources that will make your life a little easier should you work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) either as a data manager or developer.

Ylastic is a tool built upon AWS Infrastructure Services. With this tool, you can manage Amazon S3, EC2, SQS, and SimpleDB all from one easy to use interface. The Ylastic tool also allows users to set up monitoring, alerts, reporting tools and functional dashboards to keep tabs on one’s AWS cloud computing utilization and health.

Also, if you are a developer, the Amazon Web Services Developer Relations team has collected the most used data types, function calls and command line tools for their popular services in Quick Reference Cards. The cards are available for Amazon EC2, Amazon SQS, Amazon DevPay, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Fulfillment Web Service and Amazon Associates Web Service, with more guides to come in the coming months.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a provider of Internet data storage and delivery services, is expanding options for developers and enterprises looking to host their databases on the AWS cloud computing platform.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), a scalable web service solution offered by AWS, is now the first authorized cloud computing platform to run supported Oracle databases.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a provider of Internet data storage and delivery services, is planning to release an unnamed content delivery service that will likely undercut the existing Content Delivery Network (CDN) competition to provide customers with faster and cheaper digital content delivery options.