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Amazon Redshift Now Available To All Customers

Amazon Redshift Now Available To All Customers

By Zach Walton February 15, 2013

In November, Amazon Web Services announced Redshift, a “fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse in the cloud.” At the time, it was only available to a limited few customers as a preview service. Now it’s finally becoming available …

Amazon Web Services Nabs Public Sector Contracts Amazon Web Services Nabs Public Sector Contracts

Amazon, Google and other cloud storage companies have found great success in the private sector by offering storage solutions to consumers and companies alike. Negotiating contracts with the public sector is an entirely different beast altogether, but Amazon has emerged …

AWS Opens Reserved Instance Resale Market AWS Opens Reserved Instance Resale Market

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing solutions provider, today announced the launch of its Reserved Instance Marketplace. Amazon’s Reserved Instances allow businesses to pay a one-time fee to reserve computing capacity for a specified term and receive a discount …

Amazon Glacier Launched For Cheap Data Archiving Amazon Glacier Launched For Cheap Data Archiving
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Amazon has launched a new low-cost storage service called Amazon Glacier. The company says it’s optimized for data that is infrequently accessed, and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable, in order to keep costs low. Glacier comes …

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now Runs Python Apps AWS Elastic Beanstalk Now Runs Python Apps

Amazon announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk will now support Python applications, in addition to PHP, Java and .NET. Specifically, Elastic Beanstalk will now support Python apps and frameworks that run on Apache HTTP Server and the WSGI interface. Amazon also …

Compute Engine Lacks Variety Compared To Amazon Compute Engine Lacks Variety Compared To Amazon

Google impressed today with the reveal of Compute Engine, a cloud infrastructure that’s like App Engine on steroids. The company impressed with a demonstration of the cloud infrastructure’s power to deliver thousands upon thousands of processor cores to data heavy …

Amazon Web Services Outage Brings Down Websites Amazon Web Services Outage Brings Down Websites
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Last Thursday night a power outage in a Northern Virginia data center caused some websites running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud technology to go down. The issue was resolved within a few hours, and Amazon was quick to provide …

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Amazon Web Services Lowers Prices, Expands Support Amazon Web Services Lowers Prices, Expands Support

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud services company, announced today that it has expanded its free support and lowered its prices for premium support plans. Amazon’s support offerings have also been renamed to reflect the new changes. The Basic support …

Amazon Web Services Gets Billing Alerts Amazon Web Services Gets Billing Alerts

Amazon has just announced that it’s adapted its CloudWatch metrics and alarms functionality to Amazon Web Services Cloud accounts, to help users better track usage and likewise receive billing alerts. With the AWS Cloud running on a pay-as-you-go basis, bills …

AWS Announces a New Tech Conference, AWS re:Invent AWS Announces a New Tech Conference, AWS re:Invent
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud services division, has announced it is sponsoring a new technology conference surrounding AWS technologies and solutions. The conference will take place in Las Vegas on Novermber 27-29 of this year. The conference will educate …

Amazon's RDS Now Supports ASP.NET Amazon's RDS Now Supports ASP.NET

Online retail giant Amazon just announced a new update which allows users to run Microsoft’s database and web programming platform ASP.NET, on its Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Amazon reveals that users can now use Microsoft tools they are accustomed …

Wal-Mart, eBay Try Out New Search Engines Wal-Mart, eBay Try Out New Search Engines
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Reuters is reporting today that both EBay and Wal-Mart are replacing their outdated search engines in order to compete with online retailers such as Amazon. The report states that eBay will soon implement a new search engine it is calling …

Amazon Supply Launches For Industrial Customers Amazon Supply Launches For Industrial Customers

Coming just a week after Amazon launched its Amazon Web Services Marketplace, which allows customers to shop for software, databases, and servers the same way they would a book on the normal Amazon site, Amazon has now launched Amazon Supply. …

Amazon Web Services Launches AWS Marketplace Amazon Web Services Launches AWS Marketplace
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced today that they have launched the AWS Marketplace, and online store where AWS customers can shop for software and services in much the same way they would a book on Amazon. Customers will be able …

Amazon Web Services Announces Partner Network Amazon Web Services Announces Partner Network

Amazon’s Web Services Blog just announced its new web services partner network, and is launching a public beta version of the global platform, the AWS Partner Network (APN). The APN seeks to afford users of the AWS partner network the …

Netflix Is Bringing Its Monkeys Out To Play Netflix Is Bringing Its Monkeys Out To Play

Whether it be for education, help with programming or just out of good will, a lot of companies are now putting their software up as open source. This allows developers to poke and prod at the source code to find …

Amazon’s New CloudSearch Gives Sites Scalable Search Amazon’s New CloudSearch Gives Sites Scalable Search

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced Amazon CloudSearch, a service providing customers with “a fast, fully managed, and highly scalable search functionality” for web applications. Instead of managing and operating their own search engine functionality, customers can use CloudSearch to …