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Amazon Web Services
A variety of Web-based services from Amazon.com that developers use to deploy Web applications. Launched in 2002, the most notable Amazon Web Services (AWS) are its cloud computing and storage...
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Definition: Amazon Web Services
A variety of Web-based services from Amazon.com that developers use to deploy Web applications. Launched in 2002, the most notable Amazon Web Services (AWS) are its cloud computing and storage offerings (see EC2) and its crowdsourcing system (see Mechanical Turk). In 2011, Amazon added a supercomputing service, offering a cluster of computers in the cloud for performing intensive calculations.
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Amazon Web Services lands more SAP certifications
AWS is now certified for SAP Business All-in-One for Linux and Windows and SAP Rapid Deployment and Business Objects software for Windows Server 2008 R2.
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Amazon announces cloud expo this November in Las Vegas
Mark your calendars: Amazon Web Services will be hosting its first global customer and partner conference later this year.
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Amazon Web Services launches Microsoft SQL Server effort
Amazon RDS supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012 will be added this year.
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Amazon Web Services eyes enterprise search, launches CloudSearch
CloudSearch allows developers and companies to add search to their applications. Amazon provisions the infrastructure for the search and scales it accordingly.
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Amazon S3: 905 billion objects stored and counting
The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) has more than tripled in the last two years to 905 billion objects stored.
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Amazon Web Services, NIH: 1000 Genomes Project now publically available
The collection of genetic variations weighs in at 200 terabytes and DNA sequenced from 1,700 people.
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Amazon Web Services launches application workflow service
AWS is looking to automate a lot of that business logic with the Simple Workflow Service.
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Bitly: Desktop browsers still default for accessing online content
Just because most tech-savvy consumers are walking around with smartphones all day long doesn't mean that they are using mobile devices to surf the web as much, based on a new study.
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Amazon Web Services hosts more than 762 billion objects in S3
The total number of objects stored on Amazon Web Services nearly tripled between 2010 and 2011.
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Microsoft delivers developer kit for linking Amazon web services to Windows Phone
Microsoft has released under an open-source license a beta of a toolkit for integrating Amazon Web services with Windows Phone.
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Amazon Web Services intros gateway for backing up enterprise data
Amazon has debuted a new service that provides enterprises with a new option to securely upload data to Amazon Web Services cloud space.
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Amazon Web Services launches NoSQL effort: Here comes some disruption
Amazon's DynamoDB is a big data enabler that will give enterprises an avenue to try non-traditional databases.
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Amazon Web Services lands on supercomputer list, bolsters HPC offering
The new HPC instance includes 2 Intel Xeon processors with 8 cores each. The Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large also has 2 GB of RAM and 3.46 TB of instance storage.
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Amazon Web Services now deploying cloud from Oregon
Oregon has a new cloud hanging over it, courtesy of Amazon Web Services.
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Amazon Web Services moves up FISMA accreditation food chain
AWS is moving up the FISMA charts as it aims to land more government work.
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Amazon Web Services launches Oracle relational database service
Amazon Web Services launched its Relational Database Service for Oracle in a move that accommodates licensing within the offering and a bring your own license arrangement.
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SAP certifies Amazon Web Services for half of its application portfolio, core ERP on deck
SAP has certified its Rapid Deployment software as well as BusinessObjects for deployment on Amazon Web Services in a move aimed at lowering total cost of ownership and speeding up implementations.
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Amazon Web Services apologizes, promises better communication, transparency
Amazon Web Services provided its post-mortem on its outage that stretched on for more than a day. While the apology and recap of events is notable, the biggest takeaway is that Amazon promises to...
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AWS and OpenStack: an interesting contrast worth considering during cloud selection
James Staten calls out a couple of contrasting approaches for users as they give consideration to cloud implementation.
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Amazon Web Services outage: 'Detailed post mortem' coming
Amazon Web Services is operating normally for most customers and the company said it will post a detailed post mortem on what went wrong in its Northern Virginia data center.
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