Amazon wants companies to get onto its cloud using new services
Amazon launched a handful of new services all aimed at getting companies onto its cloud platform Wednesday, including a new ruggedized box for shipping data to the cloud provider.
View ArticleAmazon makes it easier to lock down the cloud
Amazon unveiled a pair of services Wednesday that are designed to make it easier for companies to keep their cloud deployments secure and within the parameters they want.
View ArticleAWS re:Invent 2015: Amazon aims to make AWS a better home for IoT devices
Amazon jumped into the managed IoT service market on Wednesday with the launch of a new platform.
View ArticleAWS re:Invent 2015: New AWS tools give developers high-powered instances,...
Amazon Chief Technical Officer Werner Vogels told an audience at the company's Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas that developing apps and services to leverage the Cloud was the new normal. To that end,...
View ArticleAWS casts a ray of strong sunshine on Amazon's profitability
Much of Amazon's sunny earnings report for the third quarter of 2015 can be traced back to its Web Services Cloud division.
View ArticleGoogle, Amazon and Wal-Mart join FAA drone task force
Google, Amazon and Wal-Mart have joined the government's task force charged with figuring out a registration and identification system for drones.
View ArticleHow Apache Kafka is greasing the wheels for big data
Analytics is often described as one of the biggest challenges associated with big data, but even before that step can happen, data has to be ingested and made available to enterprise users. That's...
View ArticleAmazon brings Microsoft users into AWS with Active Directory service
Amazon recently launched an AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, a fully-managed implementation of Active Directory.https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/active-directory/
View ArticleAmazon WorkMail can now be yours for $4 per user per month
After nearly a year in preview, Amazon's WorkMail hosted email and calendar service for enterprises is now generally available.
View ArticleAmazon AWS to go head to head with Microsoft Azure in Canada
Amazon has promised the creation of a new AWS region based in Montreal, Canada, this year, bringing its cloud to a new country at a time when it faces increased competition in the public cloud arena.
View ArticleAmazon's Cloud is flying high, but profit disappoints overall
Profits from Amazon's cloud division jumped 69 per cent last quarter, but the rest of its business fared less well.
View ArticleHow to secure Amazon Web Services like a boss
Amazon does a great job with infrastructure, but securing your cloud applications and environment is up to you. Here's how
View ArticleAmazon Web Services goes gunning for gamers with free FPS framework
Amazon Web Services is handing PC and console game developers new tools to encourage them to use its cloud services for their back-end server infrastructure.
View ArticleAmazon targets compliance-driven markets
Amazon Web Services EC2 Dedicated Hosts are designed to give you an on-premises experience in the cloud – for good or bad.
View ArticleAmazon disabled encryption on its tablets and phones because nobody used it
Amazon caught flack on Wednesday for disabling the encryption capabilities of its Fire phones and tablets with a software update. The company says its reasoning was simple: people didn't use it.
View ArticleDropbox takes the reins, moves off AWS and onto its own infrastructure
After years of relying on the Amazon cloud to store its users' files, Dropbox has shifted gears and begun using primarily its own technology instead.
View ArticleGoogle adds two new cloud regions, plans 10 more
The ambitious international expansion highlights an arms race by big IaaS providers to expand globally.
View ArticleNew AWS service helps companies to move their apps to the Cloud
A new Amazon cloud service announced Tuesday could help companies with legacy applications have an easier time taking the leap to the cloud.
View ArticleAWS focuses on hard disks for new big data services
Amazon Web Services is going retro to help companies deal with big data workloads. The cloud provider announced Tuesday that it's launching two new volume types for its Elastic Block Store service that...
View ArticleMassive growth shows why Amazon is the public Cloud leader
Amazon has shown off its dominance in the public Cloud market as the capstone to a better than expected quarterly earnings report.
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