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Amazon Web Services lowers price of storage in its cloud

Posted February 7, 2012 - 6:19 am

Amazon Web Services has cut the cost of storing data using its Simple Storage Service (S3) -- saving users with 50 TB stored on the service around 12 percent on their monthly bill, the company said on Monday.
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Amazon Web Services moves backups to cloud with new appliance

Posted January 25, 2012 - 8:16 am

Amazon Web Services has launched a public beta test of AWS Storage Gateway, which allows enterprises to back up application data in Amazon's cloud using a software appliance, the company said on Tuesday.
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Check Point supports cloud security for Amazon Web Services

Posted January 4, 2012 - 2:21 pm

Check Point and Amazon Web Services are teaming up to enable Check Point Security Gateway functionality to boost cloud security for business assets.
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Amazon reboot routine, experts say

Posted December 8, 2011 - 1:39 pm

Amazon Web Services customers this week are worrying about a server reboot the provider is pushing out, but if users have architected their applications properly, they shouldn't be concerned, experts said.
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Amazon cloud management tool gets integrated status monitoring

Posted November 17, 2011 - 11:29 am

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) management tool will from now on tell users about upcoming scheduled operational activities that will affect the availability of its cloud, the company said in blog post on Thursday.
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Amazon opens new Oregon data center for Web services

Posted November 9, 2011 - 1:24 pm

Amazon Web Services opened up a new data center in Oregon that will cost less to use than AWS's other West Coast facility, in California.
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Amazon eliminates inbound data fees for AWS

Posted June 30, 2011 - 1:07 pm

Amazon announced late on Wednesday that it is eliminating the cost for all inbound data transfer to Amazon Web Services, matching Microsoft's recent announcement of the same offer for its Azure service.
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The 10 worst cloud outages (and what we can learn from them)

Posted June 27, 2011 - 9:01 am

Sending your IT business to the cloud comes with risk, as those affected by these 10 colossal cloud outages can attest
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Amazon's cloud is full of holes

Posted June 20, 2011 - 1:59 pm

Researchers in Germany have found abundant security problems within Amazon's cloud-computing services due to its customers either ignoring or forgetting published security tips.
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SAP certifies software to run on Amazon

Posted May 18, 2011 - 7:09 am

Users of SAP's BusinessObjects and Rapid Deployment products are now able to run the applications from Amazon's cloud, marking the first time SAP has worked to make its software available on a public cloud service.
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Amazon's cloud failed: How can your cloud be better?

Posted May 10, 2011 - 1:36 pm

Amazon's cloud services failure will likely lead to reservations by corporations to deploy solutions in the public cloud. It is likely companies will focus on private cloud solutions until they believe it is safe to dip in the public cloud. The Amazon outage was caused by an improper configuration of network infrastructure components. Human error led to gigantic cloud failure and financial losses.
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Will Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk Platform Appeal to CIOs?

Posted March 28, 2011 - 8:34 pm

Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to save you money. "Instead of spending millions on a data center and servers, you can simply pay as you go," says Adam Selipsky, vice president at AWS.
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Amazon updates cloud management tool

Posted March 9, 2011 - 9:03 pm

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has upgraded its Web-based Management Console with features designed to make it easier to "scale up or scale down as [computing] needs change," according toa blog posted on Wednesday.
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How Amazon's new bulk e-mail service works

Posted January 26, 2011 - 4:09 pm

Amazon has launched Simple Email Service (SES), a new component of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform designed to help businesses send bulk e-mails. No, not spam. They aren't too keen on the "S" word over at Amazon and, in fact, many safeguards are in place to prevent abuse.
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Amazon email service launched for bulk messaging

Posted January 25, 2011 - 1:54 pm

Amazon has launched the Beta version of its Simple Email Service, aimed at businesses and developers.
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Netflix shows how to build a big business on the cloud

Posted December 17, 2010 - 1:30 pm

The future may belong to cloud computing, but few companies want to move themselves there no; Netflix moved to the future a year ago.
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Wikileaks attacks prove the cloud is reliable

Posted December 16, 2010 - 10:17 am

It's a strange world. When Amazon Web Services booted Wikileaks off its servers last week, many people (including me) said it raised significant questions about the rush into cloud services.
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Amazon integrates Apple iPhone, iPad and Android with cloud

Posted December 9, 2010 - 11:31 am

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making it possible for developers to directly integrate mobile applications for Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, and also apps for Android-based smartphones, with its cloud using two new beta SDKs (software development kits), it said in a blog post on Thursday.
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Amazon's virtual private cloud service comes to Europe

Posted May 4, 2010 - 9:04 am

Amazon Web Services has launched VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) in Europe, the company said on Tuesday. The service lets companies connect their existing data centers to isolated computing resources in Amazon's European cloud using an encrypted VPN (virtual private network) connection.
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Lawson puts its ERP on Amazon's cloud

Posted March 31, 2010 - 7:37 pm

Lawson Software announced a partnership on Wednesday that will make its ERP (enterprise resource planning) and other applications available on Amazon Web Services' cloud-computing infrastructure service.
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Amazon adds private streaming to CloudFront

Posted March 29, 2010 - 8:06 am

Amazon Web Services has added the ability for customers of CloudFront to choose who gets to receive content streamed using the service, the company said on Sunday.
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A Guide to Amazon Web Services for Corporate IT Managers

Posted February 16, 2010 - 1:05 pm

There are several compelling reasons to employ AWS, even for those IT managers that haven't considered the cloud yet.
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Inside Amazon's Cloud: Just How Many Customer Projects?

Posted September 29, 2009 - 1:25 pm

New analysis of how much work companies are doing in the cloud via Amazon Web Services proves that cloud is already viable for much more than startup needs or "toy" applications.
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How to Compare VMware and Amazon Cloud Services

Posted September 23, 2009 - 3:49 pm

VCloud express is VMware's riposte to Amazon Web Services--a publicly available, get-started-with-a-credit-card, IaaS offering. Here's how the two compare on cost.
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Web Services: Amazon launches new VPN client for its cloud

Posted September 21, 2009 - 4:20 am

Amazon last month announced a new service that allows corporate IT departments to connect to its virtual storage and computing environments via an ordinary physical VPN connection.
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