REST vs. SOAP-based WS-* Web services duel dismissed
There are perceptions afoot of a Web services war pitting SOAP-based WS-* services against REST services. But an official at Microsoft, which has spearheaded development of WS-* specifications, does not see the situation as being all that much of a conflict.
Amazon beefs up EC2 with new enterprise-appealing tools
New auto-scaling, monitoring and load-balancing tools for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud are now in public beta, the company said Monday.
Amazon EC2 extends 'reserved instances' to Europe
Amazon is now offering the "reserved instances" pricing plan for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to European customers.
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