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CloudStack Achieves First Release As Apache Incubator Project
CloudStack 4.0 adds integrated Amazon Web Services support, among other features, as the project expands beyond Citrix
Another Amazon Web Services Outage Takes Out Top Websites
AWS has more issues in northern Virginia
Amazon Web Services Lets Users Sell Second-Hand Cloud
AWS opens a market for buying and selling spare reserved instances
Amazon Web Services Launches SSD-Based EC2 Service
Amazon Web Services introduces SSD-based IaaS, as it looks to attract a higher class of customer
Amazon Launches ‘Powerful’ CloudSearch
CloudSearch offers a managed search service that can scale well, just like other Amazon services
Amazon’s Cloud Services Revealed As Quickest In Data Transfer Test
Nasuni study finds Amazon's cloud transfer speeds are faster than Microsoft Azure and Rackspace Openstack
Google Answers Amazon And Trims Cloud Storage Prices
Google has responded to Amazon's cloud price cut by trimming its Cloud Storage service costs as well
Amazon Slashes Cloud Prices Again
Amazon Web Services issues 18th price cut in six years without any "competitive pressure"
Amazon Web Services Training Course
ThoughtWorks is offering a one-day training course on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for developers, systems administrators and all technologists who want to embark on a hands-on deep-dive of Amazon's powerful AWS tools.
Amazon Reduces AWS Cloud Storage Prices
Amazon has dropped the price of its cloud storage offering, as it passes cost savings back to its customers
EnterpriseDB Offers Up Postgres Plus Cloud Database
EnterpriseDB has launched Postgres Plus Cloud Database, its enterprise-class database as a service
Amazon Touts Free Windows Server Processing For EC2 Cloud
Amazon is offering 750 hours of free Windows Server processing per month in its cloud service
Amazon Web Services Expands Direct Connect To Europe
More security-conscious businesses can access Amazon Web Services directly without using the public Internet
Amazon Offers Hourly Rental Of Cloud Supercomputer
Need a supercomputer but cannot afford the prices? Well Amazon is now offering hourly rentals of the world’s 42nd fastest supercomputer
Amazon Web Services Launches ElastiCache
AWS announces the release of ElastiCache to run an in-memory cache for apps addressing the AWS cloud
Enterprise Plus For Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon Web Services launches VPC globally and announces Direct Connect and identity management
AWS Virtual Machines Deployed With Security Holes
Researchers found security holes in VMs created on Amazon Web Services but Amazon is not at fault
Websites Back Online Following Amazon Cloud Outage
Numerous AWS-hosted websites are back online following the outage late last week at an Amazon data centre
Amazon Cloud Outage Hits Social Startups
Amazon's Cloud service (EC2) experienced a partial failure bringing down a number of websites
Amazon Cloud Security Acts Like Physical Networks
Resources can be provisioned more effectively within a new secure section of AWS Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon Targets Complex Clouds With AWS CloudFormation
Amazon has simplified the development of cloud applications with the arrival of AWS CloudFormation
Amazon RDS To Get Oracle Support
Amazon Web Services is to add support for Oracle databases to its Relational Database Service
Amazon Cloud Now Offers Bulk Email Platform
Amazon Web Services has launched a cloud-based bulk email system for businesses
Amazon Web Services Jacks Up Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon Web Services has added the Elastic Beanstalk to help Java developers scale up into the AWS cloud
Amazon Offers Free Access To EC2 Cloud
Amazon wants to tempt users into the cloud with a year's free access to the its EC2 service
Oracle’s Exalogic Targets Amazon Web Services
Oracle's new offering for private clouds features Oracle's own virtual machine technology and two guest operating systems – Solaris and Linux