Amazon started as a bookstore but has dramatically changed how the data center industry operates. Stay tuned for the latest in Amazon data center news.
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.
Netcraft says the number of web servers based in Ireland has soared since Amazon opened an EC2 data center in Dublin, illustrating how cloud computing is making it easier for companies to extend their reach internationally.
Reports of a huge Google data center in India, Linux now supports Tilera architecture, Cirrascale announces support for OpenStack, Petascale Computing facility receives construction award.
The commercial real estate news site Globe Street reports that Amazon has leased a 125,000 square foot building in northern Virginia that will eventually be used to expand its data center operations.