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.
Amazon is acquiring more land in Oregon, according to local media, a move that lays the groundwork for future data center expansion in the state.