Articles about Amazon Web Services – Page 17 of 19

Amazon bigger than Microsoft? What to watch in 2013 from Jeff Bezos & Co.

How’s this for a milestone in the making? Amazon is on a trajectory to become larger than Microsoft in 2013,… Read More

Seattle cloud services startup 2nd Watch raises $4.2 million

Madrona Venture Group is finishing the year with a bang, bankrolling a series of startup companies. The latest is 2nd… Read More

Amazon debuts cloud-based push notification system for Kindle Fire developers

Today Amazon launched Amazon Device Messaging API, its own cloud-based push notification platform for Kindle Fire apps on Amazon’s cloud. Amazon… Read More

Jeff Bezos: 7 gems from his Amazon Web Services talk

Jeff Bezos spoke this afternoon at the Amazon Web Services re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, interviewed on stage by… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ Andy Jassy: The ‘economics of what we’re doing is extremely disruptive’ to the old-guard

Why is Amazon.com going to kick the butt of Microsoft, IBM and everyone else in cloud computing for a long… Read More

Amazon sues former Amazon Web Services sales chief over his new job at Google

Amazon.com has filed suit against Daniel Powers, the former vice president in charge of global sales for Amazon Web Services… Read More

Amazon Web Services outage takes down sites, Virginia data center to blame (again)

Another problem at Amazon.com’s data center in Virginia has knocked several sites offline, the latest problem for the company’s cloud… Read More

Amazon’s new cloud services may blow your mind

At Tuesday’s Structure:Europe event, Amazon.com’s CTO Werner Vogels hinted that “there are things coming down the pipe you wouldn’t believe,”… Read More

Amazon Web Services boss Andy Jassy on competition, price wars, and getting big

The closing session at yesterday’s WTIA TechNW conference in Seattle was a conversation with Andy Jassy, the senior vice president… Read More

Amazon unveils Reserved Instant Marketplace, an exchange for cloud services

Amazon Web Services today introduced a new offering called Reserved Instance Marketplace, an online exchange of sorts where customers can sell their… Read More

Amazon unveils new storage and backup service ‘Glacier’

Another day, another new offering from Amazon Web Services. Today, the company rolled out Amazon Glacier, described as a low-cost… Read More

Amazon’s cloud powering NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover

Amazon, the online super-retailer and South Lake Union Overlord, has the cloud computing system that best suits NASA’s latest and… Read More

Dating site dumps Amazon Web Services over latest outage

The latest Amazon Web Services outage last weekend was apparently the last straw for one of the company’s customers, an… Read More

Amazon issues statement following last weekend’s outage

Amazon Web Services offered a few more details on the outage that struck its Northern Virginia data center over the… Read More

Electrical storms rattle Amazon Web Services, taking Netflix, Instagram and others offline

For the second time this month, Amazon Web Services is suffering after a power outage at its datacenter in northern… Read More

Amazon Web Services: A year after the big outage, one startup’s perspective

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since the big April 2011 Amazon Web Services outage. But we… Read More

Chart: Amazon S3 grows, with 905 billion objects now stored

Amazon has released new numbers showing continued growth for its Simple Storage Service, better known as S3, one of the… Read More

Obama pledges $200 million for ‘big data’ initiative

“Big data” is perhaps the hottest buzzword in technology these days. And now President Obama is jumping on the bandwagon,… Read More

Sony gaming unit dumps some Amazon Web Services, moves to Rackspace’s OpenStack

Sony Computer Entertainment of America is shifting some of its hosting services from Amazon Web Services to Rackspace’s OpenStack platform,… Read More

Amazon Web Services cuts prices again, cites lower costs

Amazon Web Services announced another round of price reductions in its services for data storage, processing and computing in the… Read More

Amazon.com launches new storage gateway service to securely backup data

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a yet another new offering today called AWS Gateway Storage, a service that the… Read More

Amazon’s DynamoDB: What it is, and why it matters

Guest Commentary: Amazon Web Services this morning announced a new service called DynamoDB — rolling out, in public form, a… Read More

Amazon launches ‘DynamoDB’ cloud database service

Amazon Web Services has been dropping hints about a big announcement planned for this morning, and this is it. The… Read More

Amazon starts offering free Windows Server in the cloud

Amazon Web Services plans to start letting businesses run Windows Server applications for free for up to 750 hours of… Read More

Amazon Web Services: Almost a billion-dollar business?

Amazon Web Services is poised top $1 billion in cloud services revenue in 2012, according to a new report from… Read More

Supercomputer in the cloud: Amazon lands on Top500 list

Here’s a surprising name on the new list of the world’s fastest supercomputers: Amazon Web Services. Looking to promote its… Read More

Madrona, Amazon and others pump $10 million into online ad analyzer Yieldex

Madrona Venture Group and Amazon.com are among the backers in a $10 million round for Yieldex, a New York-based company… Read More

Amazon Silk: New web browser taps cloud for flexibility

It’s not just Kindles and tablets in the news from Amazon this morning. The Seattle company is also announcing a… Read More

Geek of the Week: Amazon’s Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec

Some people tell great stories about camping out for the latest gadgets, but when your life experience includes time in… Read More

Whoa, Amazon is now valued at more than $101 billion

Remember those folks who once declared that Amazon was “toast?” Well, where are they now? Amazon.com’s stock has surged above… Read More