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Amazon Web Services

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In annual letter, Bezos jokes about Amazon’s Golden Globe win boosting sales of power tools

“I’m pretty sure we’re the first company to have figured out how to make winning a Golden Globe pay off… Read More

Amazon Web Services revealed: Bezos calls cloud computing division a $5B business

In its quarterly earnings report posted today, Amazon revealed that its cloud computing business generated $1.57 billion in net sales during the… Read More

Amazon rolls out new file storage service, makes two more generally available

SAN FRANCISCO–Amazon rolled out a massive set of new and updated cloud services at its AWS Summit in San Francisco… Read More

Amazon takes aim at Microsoft’s big data plans with new Machine Learning service

SAN FRANCISCO–Amazon just took aim at a growing area of Microsoft’s business today with the announcement of its new Amazon… Read More

Amazon fights patent suit using little-noticed clause in standard AWS customer agreement

As recently as 2011, according to Amazon, someone at Appistry Inc. registered the genomics data technology company to use Amazon Web Services. As part… Read More

Amazon’s cloud computing unit is worth up to $50B, analyst says

Starting this year Amazon shareholders will know exactly how much revenue the company generates from its cloud computing business when it starts to… Read More

Amazon Web Services dominates cloud survey, but Microsoft Azure gains traction

Amazon Web Services continues to dominate cloud computing, with 57 percent of technical professionals saying in a new survey that… Read More

Amazon will break out Amazon Web Services financials in 2015; AWS usage up 90% in one year

Amazon investors and the public will soon have a better idea of how much revenue the company generates from its cloud… Read More

Amazon jumps into corporate email market with new ‘WorkMail’ service

Amazon is launching a new email and calendar service, dubbed WorkMail, to compete with Microsoft Exchange, Google Apps and other behind-the-scenes… Read More

Amazon Web Services reaches 1M business and government customers, tops 40% revenue growth

Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy will take the stage shortly in Las Vegas for the company’s annual re:Invent conference,… Read More

Amazon hiring former CIOs to help sell more enterprise cloud computing products

Amazon is courting former chief information officers in an effort to bring in more enterprise cloud computing business. The Wall Street… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands in Europe with new data centers in Germany

Amazon Web Services this morning expanded its presence in the European Union, activating new data centers in Frankfurt, Germany, in an… Read More

Amazon and Google wrestle over corporate secrets in cloud employment dispute

Google is seeking to formally intervene in a lawsuit filed by Amazon against a former Amazon Web Services employee who left the… Read More

Amazon takes aim at Microsoft Azure with new Mobile Services push

Amazon wants make it easier for mobile app developers to integrate cloud services into their apps. The company today unveiled a quartet of… Read More

Amazon CTO: Cloud isn’t a winner-take-all market

SAN FRANCISCO–The way Amazon CTO Werner Vogels sees it, there isn’t going to be one winner in the cloud space as Microsoft,… Read More

Cloud wars, episode 3: Microsoft cuts Azure prices following price drops from Amazon, Google

It seems like Microsoft is keeping up with its promise to cut prices for its cloud services in lockstep with… Read More

Cloud Wars: Amazon cuts prices again, battling Google and Microsoft

SAN FRANCISCO – When it comes to the cloud, the name of the game is price cuts. Amazon Web Services… Read More

Protecting the cloud: Amazon gains key certification from Department of Defense

Amazon announced today that Amazon Web Services has received a provisional certification from the Department of Defense under the department’s… Read More

Cloud Storage Wars: Microsoft’s Azure battles Amazon Web Services on price

Microsoft this morning followed through on its promise to match Amazon Web Services’ prices for commodity cloud computing services, saying… Read More

Security researchers: Amazon hosts nearly half of the top 10 malware distributors

Thousands upon thousands of people use Amazon Web Services to host their websites — including some of the most tenacious… Read More

Amazon Web Services makes big move into China

Amazon Web Services will open a new China region starting with a limited preview in the country early next year,… Read More

Amazon’s new ‘Kinesis’ will crunch a firehose of real-time data from the cloud

Amazon this morning introduced a new cloud service called “Kinesis” — promising to let developers stream and process “terabytes of… Read More

AWS server issues take down Instagram, Airbnb, Flipboard

People posting photos, recording videos, making room reservations and reading the news on Sunday afternoon had to take a break… Read More

Amazon Web Services adds SDK support for Windows Phone, Windows Store apps

Amazon Web Services has been beefing up support for Microsoft Windows as of late, and this week it released a new… Read More

Amazon Web Services targets bigger companies, going toe-to-toe with Microsoft

Amazon Web Services’ partner network has grown to more than 4,000 members, up from less than 1,000 a year ago… Read More

Maritz: Netflix ‘inextricably bound into Amazon for all eternity’

Is Netflix depending too heavily on Amazon? That’s one of the questions raised by a cover story about Netflix in… Read More

Tech Moves: Amazon vet joins Relaborate; MG Siegler leaves CrunchFund; Jawfish; and more

Last week, we noted how difficult it is for startup companies to compete against Amazon.com and other tech giants in… Read More

Amazon’s favorite startups: Grand Cru, LogMyCalls, MortarData and TraceLink

Amazon.com caters to startups, largely so that early-stage companies will jump on its Web services platform. One of the ways… Read More

Netflix nightmare explained: Amazon apologizes for outage

What happened at Amazon Web Services to take down the Netflix streaming service for hours on Christmas Eve? It was a… Read More

Outage at Amazon Web Services takes down Netflix on Christmas Eve

The elves at Amazon.com are hard at work tonight trying to fix yet another outage at Amazon Web Services. The… Read More

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