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.
Numenta, the machine learning company from Palm creator Jeff Hawkins, has narrowed its business model to focus solely on predicting anomalies in Amazon Web Services instances. It’s one of several big… Read more »
Amazon may still be the market leader in cloud, but there are five big changes that AWS customers are clamoring for, which means five big opportunities for the ever-increasing number of… Read more »
When Amazon launched S3 in March, 2006, no one with the possible exception of Jeff Bezos et al, thought that Amazon Web Services would become an IT juggernaut. Well, guess what? Read more »
Terry Halvorsen, CIO of the Department of the Navy said this move, part of the government’s continuing Cloud First push, could save big bucks Read more »
AT&T had to make a few concessions to get the deal approved, but they were a small price to pay for the big spectrum haul Ma Bell will gain in key… Read more »
Game developers can now use hefty AWS graphical processing and fast streaming to put the grunt work in Amazon’s cloud and the result on users’ devices. Read more »