Aws News & Articles

Organizations and enterprises that bank on Amazon S3 services for their cloud storage needs might find themselves paying up to 13.5% less starting this February, as Amazon announces price cuts for S3, promising a "significant reduction" in storage costs.

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.

Are you curious how the multitudes of public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers stack up? Thanks to Gartner, there is no longer a need to wonder. The analyst firm has released its first magic quadrant for the public IaaS market.

No matter how much cash companies rake in from the private sector, everyone knows the big bucks are with the government. So, Amazon's new higher-level security pass will let it waltz right up to the pork barrels as .gov goes cloud.

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.

This week in the enterprise, Amazon took a look at what could have caused last week's detrimental outage while its customers picked up the pieces and moved on with their digital lives. Meanwhile, a certain little green martian zoomed ahead of the iPhone in the mobile race.

Earlier this week -- during the Amazon EC2 outage -- Forrester Research released its report "Sizing the Cloud," which projects the size of the cloud and its various xxx–as-a-service segments between 2011 and 2020. According to the report, the world market for cloud service will expand from $40.7 billion in 2011, with a little over half, $21.2 billion, from public cloud services, to greater than $241 billion in 2020. Do you think EC2-gate makes them want to do one more editing pass?

We earlier introduced Nimbula Director (news, site) as an on-premise cloud management system akin to Amazon EC2. Launched in public beta December 2010, Nimbula has recently announced general availability of its Nimbula Director cloud OS, as well as a functional free version for enterprise users up to a certain scale.

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.

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.