On Thursday Amazon Web Services announced that it was eliminating fees for inbound data transfer (uploads) and reducing fees for outbound data transfer (delivery). Here's a roundup of analysis and commentary from around the Web.
A subsidiary of Amazon.com has deployed six data center modules at a project in Umatilla, Oregon, local media reported this week. It is one of three Oregon sites where Amazon has filed building plans.
Amazon.com held a technology open house this week, where Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton discussed the company's infrastructure, including a modular data center design used by Amazon.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.