Digital cloud services aren’t immune to the impact of real clouds, and that meant some bad news this weekend for …
Amazon pitches MySQL in the cloud for $19 a month
Amazon Web Services has introduced a micro version of its cloud-based database service RDS running MySQL and priced from US$19 …
Amazon moves to make it easier to cut cost of cloud-based batch jobs
Amazon Web Services has integrated configuration templates and auto-scaling features with its Spot Instances offering in an effort to make …
SAP offers mobile device management on Amazon's cloud
SAP’s Afaria mobile device management tool is now available on Amazon Web Services’ cloud, offered as a way to make …
Amazon CTO: startups lead the way in big data analytics
Startups and small companies are stealing a march on their larger enterprise counterparts by employing analytics at the heart of …
Amazon CTO: You should be able to ‘walk away’ from cloud providers
One of the core philosophies related to Amazon Web Services’ market-leading suite of infrastructure as a service products is that …
Appcelerator’s development tool Titanium now comes with cloud services
Appcelerator has announced version 2.0 of its cross-platform mobile development platform Titanium, which includes integrated cloud services that will make …
Amazon releases staggering storage figures
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has outlined the rapid growth of its Simple Storage Service (S3), which it says now holds …
Yahoo serves Mojito for web app development
Yahoo on Monday released an open-source web application framework called Mojito that aims to make it faster for developers to …
Amazon expands cloud-based live streaming functionality
Amazon has added the ability for CloudFront to stream live content to Apple iOS devices and Microsoft Silverlight clients, the …
Amazon may provide Indian cloud services over Tata infrastructure
Amazon could be preparing to launch cloud services in India, after it emerged that the company has been buying up …
Openbravo to offer web-based ERP solutions in the Middle East
Openbravo, a web-based open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) provider, yesterday announced that it has established relationships with eight Middle …
Amazon comes out on top in cloud data transfer speed test
If your enterprise finds itself needing to transfer a lot of data in the cloud, beware: depending on where the …
Amazon expands integrated status monitoring
Amazon Web Services has added the ability to monitor the status of storage volumes on EBS (Elastic Block Store), the …
Sony division moves services from AWS to OpenStack
The division of Sony that suffered a cyber attack last year, which led to a major PlayStation network outage and …
Google and Amazon cut prices of cloud services
Both Google and Amazon have reduced the prices of their respective cloud-based services. Google has cut the price of its Cloud …
Amazon automates business processes with new cloud service
Amazon Web Services has launched Simple Workflow Service (SWF), which will allow enterprises to automate business processes across both cloud-based …
Amazon steps up service security for government agencies
Amazon is stepping up the security and access features of its cloud services in an effort to attract more government …
Amazon adds identity management to Web console
The Amazon Web Services Management Console can now handle Identity and Access Management (IAM) features offered in its cloud, the …
Configuration error lead to cloud outage: Amazon
Amazon has released a detailed postmortem and mea culpa about the partial outage of its cloud services platform last week …