Amazon introduced M4 instances, the latest powerhouse group of instances in the general purpose family. The instances will appeal to anything that sits at the intersection of current compute-optimized (C4 family) and memory-optimized (R3 family)...

Cloud provider signs long-term PPA with developer of 80MW solar project

Makes economic development commitments in exchange for hefty tax breaks

Gartner's annual Magic Quadrant for IaaS report increases AWS market share over last year. Last year, Gartner said it had 5 times the cloud capacity of the next 14 combined. It now has 10 times the capacity.

Several townships in Ohio have been vying for a $1.1bn Amazon data center project. Reported to be split across three townships, Orange Township has been notified that Amazon's application has been formally withdrawn

The software is now easy to deploy across all the major cloud providers, positioned as mission control for deploying containers and applications at massive scale

Publicly committed to 100-percent-renewable operations, company says energy storage helps use more renewable energy, improve reliability

AWS shows healthy revenue growth and turns profit, but data center costs across cloud market are enormous and growing

Analyst reports show competitors gaining ground on leaders in the space

General-purpose machine-learning service can be used to predict hardware failures, temperature fluctuations, and more