The new service makes it easier to implement the popular open-source tool While Amazon Web Services made a name for itself by providing raw computing power and data storage at rock-bottom prices, the company has been moving toward providing services […]
Amazon speeds up its cloud with SSD block storage
Market leader AWS is attempting to widen its lead. Amazon Web Services has launched a new general purpose Elastic Block Store that runs fully on solid state drives (SSD), which the leading IaaS cloud vendor says will provide dramatically better […]
Ultimate cloud speed tests: Amazon vs. Google vs. Windows Azure
A diverse set of real-world Java benchmarks shows that Google is fastest, Azure is slowest, and Amazon is priciest If the cartoonists are right, heaven is located in a cloud where everyone wears white robes, every machine is lightning quick, […]
Can anybody catch Amazon?
Challengers to Amazon’s dominance in public cloud services face an uphill battle It is quite a stretch for most cloud service providers to match the geographical reach of Amazon Web Services. It’s equally tough to roll out a portfolio of […]
Kindle users get Amazon offer for returned deleted books, gift certificates
While the distributor of several e-books was wrong to assume that the “classic” nature of certain titles allowed them to be sold under the public domain license, there’s been considerable concern over Amazon’s right to “undo” the sale of those […]