Smart startups pick their (AWS) services carefully
Talko, like many modern day startups, takes advantage of low-cost web services to build a high-value application. The problem is so many services, so little time.
Amazon expands its NoSQL story with JSON support in DynamoDB
Amazon Web Services’ popular DynamoDB service now supports JSON documents, a capability that makes it more competitive against alternatives from Microsoft, Google and MongoDB. AWS also increased storage and throughput limits on the DynamoDB free tier, making the service that much more appealing.
Amazon goes local with DynamoDB (kinda)
If you’re a developer and would like to road-test a DynamoDB app locally without incurring charges, you can now do so, says Amazon Web Services.
Killer cloud: report says Amazon Web Services threatens all IT incumbents
New Morgan Stanley research expects AWS to hit $24 billion in revenue by 2022 and to put the hurt on legacy IT providers in the process.
So Google Compute Engine is out, your move Amazon
Now that GCE is available to all — complete with by-the-minute charges and a new NoSQL database service, we eagerly await Amazon’s response. Make no mistake, there will be one.
Google’s growing cloud just got a NoSQL database
Google is expanding its cloud platform with a “NoSQL-like” database called Cloud Datastore. It’s a fully managed database that’s replicated across data centers and built to scale.
Amazon slices prices on DynamoDB database service
Not a huge surprise: Amazon Web Services cut prices on its DynamoDB NoSQL database service just over a year after its launch.
Amazon gets (more) serious about the enterprise. No kidding
The fact that Amazon Web Services is targeting enterprise accounts is nothing new. The company’s just getting more blatant about it.
Rackspace versus Amazon: The big data edition
Rackspace is busy building a Hadoop service, giving the company one more avenue to compete with cloud kingpin Amazon Web Services. However, the two services — along with several others on the market — highlight just how different seemingly similar cloud services can be.
How big is Amazon Web Services? Bigger than a billion
If you parse Amazon’s first quarter earnings, you could be forgiven for thinking that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now a $2 billion-a-year business. Revenue from Amazon’s “other” category was $500 million for the quarter, although “other” does include revenue from other things.