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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The service is advertised as providing a large computing capacity (potentially many servers) much faster and cheaper than building a physical server farm.
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EMC has just closed a deal to buy Cloudscaling, provider of an AWS API compatible OpenStack cloud. Read more »
Mortar, a startup helping developers launch Hadoop jobs in the Amazon cloud, is offering a managed version of the open source Luigi tool for managing big data pipelines. Created at Spotify,… Read more »
The week in cloud: Amazon has said that live migration would not have averted last month’s cloud reboots. But folks are betting it’s working on the technology just the same. Read more »
The battle between public and private cloud continued in the third quarter while taxation of the cloud looms. Read more »
Amazon Web Services’ popular DynamoDB service now supports JSON documents, a capability that makes it more competitive against alternatives from Microsoft, Google and MongoDB. AWS also increased storage and throughput limits… Read more »
Microsoft, Amazon and Google are hosting big cloud events within weeks of each other, starting this month. Read more »
Andrew Spyker, who’s already won the vaunted Netflix Cloud Monkey award, liked it so much he’s joining the company as a member of its cloud platform engineering team. Read more »
This week in cloud: It was all-cloud-all-the-time at Oracle OpenWorld as Larry Ellison again vowed that Oracle will lead the world in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Good luck with that says… Read more »
While some websites were forced offline as a result of Xen hypervisor updates affecting multiple cloud providers, Netflix once again remained up entirely. The biggest fear last weekend was for the… Read more »