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Amazon is debuting an interesting new approach to cloud computing, the app store model. Specifically, it's started offering several software solutions, along with the cloud hardware to run them, on a pay-as-you-go basis available via the newly introduced Amazon Web Services Marketplace.
"Using the new AWS Marke... |
19 April 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Amazon is adding another product to the Web Services rooster, CloudSearch. The name leaves no room for interpretation, it's a search service powered by the cloud. It's designed for websites and apps that want to add search functionality that scales well relatively easy.
"Amazon CloudSearch is a fully-manag... |
12 April 2012
16:51 GMT |
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While everyone is talking about the cloud these days, Amazon remains the leader, at least in the public cloud space. One of the cloud services Amazon offers that's proving particularly popular is S3, the simple storage service. The storage service continues to grow at an accelerated pace, going from 762 billion... |
6 April 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Google is not the only one to make the most of April Fools, even though the company is probably the biggest fan of the day. Amazon had a bit of fun as well with a clever prank for its Web Services. Since launch, Amazon's web service has become synonymous with cloud computing, but it knows that sometimes, there&... |
2 April 2012
08:40 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft also announced the release of a new developer tool for developers interested in packing Amazon Web Services (AWS) with their Windows Phone applications.
The new Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDK for Windows Phone was built as an open source project from Microsoft, providing developers with a speed dia... |
1 February 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Apple’s latest iPhone models have been released on the shelves of most large wireless carriers in the United States, with T-Mobile currently the only operator left out of the deal.
However, it appears that things might change as soon as the next iPhone model is launched, since the Cupertino-based company will ... |
13 January 2012
12:01 GMT |
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T-Mobile's Chief Technology Officer Neville Ray has revealed in an interview that his company is ready to support the next-generation of iPhones, should Apple decide to add another carrier to its growing list of wireless partners.
T-Mobile’s head says they use a unique band of spectrum called AWS (Advance... |
12 January 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Amazon's cloud has traditionally been aimed at startups or websites looking for a cheap way to scale or run some computing intensive tasks. But it's been gradually working its way into another area where cloud computing could have a big effect, high-performance computing (HPC). Now it's launching a new... |
15 November 2011
11:50 GMT |
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Amazon is running a very interesting promotion aimed at mobile app developers, promoting its Android Appstore and its Amazon Web Services at the same time. The deal is simple, submit an app to the App Store and you get $50 worth of credit to use with the company's cloud services.The credit is good for a number o... |
8 September 2011
11:41 GMT |
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Apparently, Apple does have its limits. While it seems that everything it sets its mind to, it accomplishes with huge success, phones, tablets, music stores and so on, one thing that it hasn't mastered, yet, is the cloud.Apple's upcoming iCloud service has been hyped since people first learned about it.It&#... |
3 September 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Zynga is a social gaming powerhouse. As it heads towards an IPO, the company has hundreds of millions of users, many of them playing every day. All of these users pose a major problem, you need a lot of computing power to serve them all.
While Zynga games use the Facebook Platform, they need to run on Zynga'... |
5 July 2011
05:03 GMT |
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Amazon's Web Services was a interesting departure for the online retailer when it was first launched, but, like the company's other seemingly odd ventures, AWS actually has quite a lot in common with its existing business.
One of the most basic examples is that, with scale everything is cheaper. This is... |
30 June 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Amazon ushered in the era of the cloud. Amazon's Web Services made it affordable and easy to run any type of service in the cloud and have access to on-demand computing power. The downside of this is that you're sharing hardware with others using AWS. If this is not an option for you, Amazon has an answer, ... |
30 March 2011
03:01 GMT |
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Reddit has been flying high for the past months, user numbers are surging and so is revenue for the first time. Strange then that the site is now down to one developer since the other two both quit this week. Reddit has always operated with a very small crew and, even as the site grew, it only hired few more people. ... |
19 March 2011
14:05 GMT |
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Amazon is expanding greatly in Europe with the acquisition of a large warehouse in Dublin to house a huge new data center. The new location will power Amazon's Web Services unit and will serve the European region. There are official confirmations but only an estimated price. The deal is believed to be one of the... |
10 February 2011
11:49 GMT |
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Amazon is adding another product to its ever expanding set of cloud services, users and businesses will now be able to send large number of emails via the Amazon Simple Email Service. The product is aimed at those needing to send bulk email effectively and without having to tackle the hassle of building your own solu... |
25 January 2011
10:54 GMT |
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Ranked as the top botnet threat by InfoWorld this summer, the atrocious Zeus botnet was discovered to have infiltrated Amazons EC2's cloud computing service. This comes as the first successful (if we can say that) botnet infiltration in one of Amazon's cloud-based services, renowned for their safety and per... |
10 December 2009
11:09 GMT |
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Amazon will introduce handheld token generators as an upgrade to its authentication procedures for the Web Services section. This type of authentication provides a huge leap in security for AWS members, being inspired by the token generators used in home banking secure customer login.Amazon Web Services is a product ... |
2 September 2009
04:32 GMT |
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Cricket Communication, one of the not-so-big US mobile carriers, offers from now on two fresh Samsung handsets: Samsung MyShot and Samsung Spex, both running on the operator's new CDMA AWS (Advanced Wireless Service) network. Samsung MyShot is an entry-level clamshell that packs basic but useful features a... |
28 March 2008
06:45 GMT |
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Cricket Communications, a US provider of unlimited wireless services, unveiled the first CDMA AWS mobile phone for the American market, the UTStarcom CDM7126. The phone is created to work on the new AWS (Advanced Wireless Services) spectrum band, which basically means that besides supporting 850 and 1900 MHz CDMA net... |
10 March 2008
07:04 GMT |
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