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Amazon Web services marketplace patent published
News Amazon.com has received a public airing of its patent application for an online marketplace where consumers search and pay for Web services. Amazon, in its latest filing, is seeking to patent its idea for creating a marketplace where third-party...
[July 29, 2005, 13:05]
Amazon Web Services: 'Ship us your drives'
News Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new service that lets users physically ship their data on drives, to be uploaded to the company's cloud-based S3 storage facilities. In an Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog post, the team noted that "hard drives are...
[May 22, 2009, 13:08]
Amazon makes Web services move
News Amazon.com is catching the Web services wave. Amazon's release of its features as Web services follows by nearly two years a similar move by e-commerce rival eBay. Amazon's Web services program allows developers to tap into Amazon's features via...
[July 18, 2002, 11:23]
Amazon improves its Web services tool
News A new version of Amazon.com's Web services tool allows third parties to embed Amazon's shopping cart technology into their own Web sites. Amazon, which launched its Web services feature in July 2002, said it now has 25,000 developers in the program.
[May 19, 2003, 14:08]
Amazon, Google lead new path to Web services
News Amazon launched its Web services program in July. We have discussion boards, they help each other debug one another, post code," said Colin Bryar, director of Amazon's Web services and associates program.
[November 25, 2002, 10:07]
Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services, Part 5: Dataset Processing in the Cloud With SimpleDB
White Papers In this "Cloud computing with Amazon Web Services" series, learn about cloud computing using Amazon Web Services. Learn basic Amazon SimpleDB (SDB) concepts and explore some of the functions provided by boto, an open source Python library for...
[February 12, 2009, 23:00]
IBM's Tivoli heads to Amazon Web Services
News IBM's Tivoli monitoring applications are now available on Amazon Web Services. In the past year, Amazon Web Services has done much to bolster its enterprise cloud computing credibility by offering a wide range of applications used regularly by IT...
[December 2, 2009, 11:51]
Anne Geddes Expands Web Presence to Amazon.com With Web Services and C#
White Papers Geddes Group contracted with development partner Personify Design to build a Web services interface to tie Amazon.com's Apache-based platform to Geddes' existing Microsoft Windows - based back-end infrastructure.
[June 20, 2007, 1:00]
Rackspace challenges Amazon with cloud services
News Rackspace's cloud services are roughly analogous to those provided by competitors such as Amazon, with Cloud Server doing much the same thing as Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and Cloud Files being an equivalent to Amazon's S3.
[March 16, 2009, 14:59]
Amazon's cloud gets multi-factor authentication
News Users of Amazon Web Services are being offered authentication devices, similar to those used by many online banking customers, for secure access to their cloud services accounts. The AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA) security system was...
[September 1, 2009, 15:45]
Amazon.com: the Web services trailblazer
News Amazon.com has fleshed out how it is using Web services to drive sales and increase profits, impressing experts familiar with this new model of computing. Amazon Web Services was announced last July and is aimed at benefiting Amazon.com by bringing...
[March 12, 2003, 15:43]
Teradata unveils cloud strategy
News Data-warehousing giant Teradata is outlining its cloud-computing strategy including an internal cloud service and a public offering via Amazon Web Services. Teradata has a multi-pronged strategy that includes an internal cloud offering for...
[October 20, 2009, 17:23]
Amazon tweaks EC2 pricing for the enterprise
News The move is significant enough to sway IT executives to adopt more of Amazon's Web Services — especially when they have tight budgets. Enterprises have begun to use Amazon's web services more in recent months and the economic downturn has only...
[March 13, 2009, 13:39]
Amazon launches Virtual Private Cloud service
News Amazon Web Services has launched a secure bridging service designed to connect enterprise datacentres with its cloud, filling in a missing part of its cloud lineup for enterprises. With Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), announced in a blog post on...
[August 27, 2009, 12:40]
Amazon expands cloud services for the enterprise
News Amazon Web Services has been offering on-demand computing and storage capacity for three years through its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) and now the company wants to make it easier for businesses to use them.
[May 5, 2009, 16:02]
Open-source cloud platform goes commercial
Blog Eucalyptus, an open-source project aimed at making it possible to set up Amazon Web Services-compatible private cloud infrastructures, has established itself as a private company, Eucalyptus Systems. Crucially, Eucalyptus appears to the be the only...
[April 29, 2009, 13:15]
Amazon hosted storage suffers glitches
News Amazon's hosted storage services suffered technical glitches last week, mishaps that caused some early users to think twice about using the company's nascent web services. By Sunday, a representative from the Amazon Web Services business unit...
[January 9, 2007, 7:54]
Amazon opens up SimpleDB to the public
News SimpleDB is just one of many components that make up the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-computing initiative — the others being the Simple Storage Service (S3) hosted storage facility, the CloudFront content-delivery service and the Elastic...
[December 1, 2008, 16:11]
Amazon to underpin M&S online
News Under the terms of the deal, Amazon Services Europe - a new subsidiary - will host and provide the technology behind Marks & Spencer's Web site, as well as the company's in-store and telephone ordering and customer services systems.
[April 19, 2005, 17:00]
Google starts new chapter with Amazon
News Google's services will enable Amazon.com customers to conduct research across the Web," Omid Kordestani, senior vice president of Google's worldwide sales and field operations, said in a statement. Google plans to provide search services and...
[April 3, 2003, 15:56]
