The former general manager of Microsoft’s Windows Phone developer platform started a new job at Amazon on Monday, leading a …
Amazon experiences cloud trouble, yet again
Less than a month after a 12-hour-plus outage on Christmas Eve, Amazon Web Service’s Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service in its …
Amazon makes it easier to track costs, usage in its cloud
Somewhat undercutting a budding ecosystem of vendors that provide similar services, Amazon Web Services today announced increased features for customers to track …
Microsoft Surface and Amazon smartphones on horizon
Microsoft and Amazon will launch own-brand smartphones mid-2013, including a Windows Phone 8 Surface. iPhone maker Foxconn has apparently received orders from Microsoft and …
Amazon introduces data warehouse service
Adding to an already considerable set of cloud IT offerings, Amazon has introduced a hosted data warehouse service called Redshift, …
Amazon records first net loss in nine years
Amazon.com made a net loss in the third quarter, its first loss in nine years, even as revenue increased by …
Amazon improves developer friendliness of storage service
Amazon is adding a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing capability to its S3 Simple Storage Service, allowing developers to build web applications …
ITC leads investigation against Amazon, Samsung and others
The U.S. International Trade Commission has said it has instituted an investigation into wireless consumer electronics devices and components thereof …
Amazon Web Services introduces low-cost storage service
Amazon Web Services has announced the release of Glacier, a low-cost storage service that has been customised for data archiving …
Rackspace OpenStack will target Amazon customers
Rackspace has announced that it will launch its open source infrastructure-as-a-service platform, OpenStack, in mid-August in the UK, where it …
Amazon opens up about its cloud security practices, joins CSA registry
Amazon Web Services has submitted an entry to the Cloud Security Alliance’s Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR), a move that sheds some light …
Russian 'cyber-bandits' arrested for Amazon DDoS attacks
A Russian accused of being behind DDoS attacks carried out on Amazon and other US sites in 2008 has been …
Amazon, Google, Apple among least transparent companies in the world
Apple, Amazon.com and Google are among the least transparent companies in the world, according to a survey of 105 publicly …
Amazon joins Apple, Google in maps war with UpNext acquisition
Last month, Google announced new a 3D mapping service, followed shortly after by Apple’s announcement that it has built its own mapping …
Amazon prepping a smartphone and four tablets
Amazon is keeping busy as the e-retailing company is reportedly prepping to release four new tablets and a smartphone. Amazon …
Amazon cloud hit by real clouds, also knocking out Instagram, Pinterest
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 Web Services helps users avoid bill shock
Amazon Web Services users can now start receiving billing alerts that help them continuously monitor their cloud costs, the company …