Amazon Web Services continues to expand its applicability in the high-end computing world. The newest enhancement is a workhorse of an instance designed for real-time, high memory needs, called the High Memory Cluster Eight Extra Large instance type.
Amazon Web Service's move to add new data center infrastructure could shore up the reliability of its cloud computing infrastructure in Northern Virginia, which hosts key facilities in the outage-plagued US-East region.
Interxion (INXN) establishes Direct Connect to Amazon Web Services from all data centers, Verizon (VZ) expands 100G networks, Level 3 Latin America receives ISAE 3402.
Xerox selects Cisco UCS for global cloud print services, SoftLayer and 10gen launch MongoDB systems and Amazon Web Services cloud now supports Windows software.
Amazon Web Services had announced a limited preview of Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels announced Redshift at Amazon's first re: Invent conference Wednesday.
Networking vendors are making announcements in conjunction with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re: Invent conference, including Riverbed and AWS collaborating, Vyatta Network OS is now available on AWS and F5 BIG-IP virtual edition is available...
Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage, launching a new AWS AsiaPac region in Sydney, Australia. This region launches with two availability zones so customers may use it for high availability applications.
A software bug in a data collection agent for Amazon's Elastic Block Storage (EBS) system triggered last Monday's service outage for many services running on Amazon Web Services, the company said today.
Will Monday's downtime for some customers of Amazon Web Services have a lasting impact for AWS? The incident is unlikely to cause any kind of mass exodus, but may hamper Amazon's' enterprise ambitions and has emboldened rivals to pursue AWS...