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.
Amazon (AMZN) announces the availabiliy of cluster compute instances for EC2, enabling HPC in the Amazon cloud. Also, VMware rolls out its vSphere 4.1 virtualization platform.