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Amazon Slowed by Lady Gaga Release
May 24th, 2011 : John Rath
An Amazon Cloud Drive promotion plus Lady Gaga equals another bruise for Amazon as servers slowed Monday during the release of her new "Born This Way" album. Read More
Many AWS Sites Recover, Some Face Longer Wait
April 22nd, 2011 : Rich Miller
As the performance problems with the Amazon cloud platform enter a second day, Amazon says it has isolated the issues to a single availability zone. As the Amazon team continues to work to restore the remaining services, many AWS customers that were offline Thursday have managed to get their sites up and running. Read More
Major Amazon Outage Ripples Across Web
April 21st, 2011 : Rich Miller
When a busy cloud computing platform crashes, the impact is felt widely. That's the case with today's extended outage for Amazon Web Services, which is battling latency issues at one of its northern Virginia data centers. Many high-profile AWS customers are either down or reporting problems. Read More
Amazon’s Cloud Goes Modular in Oregon
March 28th, 2011 : Rich Miller
The data center arm of Amazon.com is building data centers at three sites in Oregon, according to local media, who report that two of the sites are using a modular design. Read More
Amazon Cloud Turns Five, Keeps Adding Services
March 24th, 2011 : Olafur Ingthorsson
As Amazon Web Services turns five, the cloud computing pioneer continues to add services to ease the deploymnt of cloud computing capacity, like the new CloudFormation offering. recent;y Read More
Are There Tax Breaks in The Cloud?
March 10th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Can reserved instances on cloud computing platforms be treated as physical servers for tax purposes. An interesting discussion has emerged around the topic, prompted by Netflix's use of the EC2 service. Read More
Amazon Buys Dublin Site for Data Center
February 9th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Amazon (AMZN) has bought a former supermarket warehouse near Dublin and plans to convert the building into a data center to expand its rapidly-growing cloud computing operation. Read More
Amazon S3 Cloud Stores 262 Billion Objects
January 30th, 2011 : Rich Miller
How big is Amazon's cloud? It's huge, and getting huger. Amazon Web Services' S3 cloud storage service housed 262 billion objects at year-end of 2010, more than doubling in size from 102 billion objects. Read More
Cloud News: Amazon, EU Cloud, Internap
January 21st, 2011 : John Rath
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches Elastic Beanstalk platform-as-a-service, European Union offers new report on cloud computing for government, Internap (INAP) introduces cloud storage service. Read More