John Rauser, a principal engineer at Amazon, discusses careers in big data at the O'Reilly Strata Conference. Rauser shares the story of the world's first data scientist and then his own 18-year career journey from software engineering to data...
Amazon Web Services has released a detailed incident report on last week's data center outage in Dublin. Amazon outlined steps it would take to address the issues, and announced a 10-day service credit for all customers that were affected.
Colocation customers in Equinix data centers can now connect their infrastructure directly to Amazon Web Services via AWS Direct Connect, establishing a private network connection that can reduce network costs and increase throughput.
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.