Moving to Amazon Web Services is proving pricey for Matson, a Honolulu-based shipping company that last month announced it has abandoned its four data centers in favor of going all-in with AWS.… Read More
Amazon is crafting its Alexa voice-based digital assistant to be like one of its employees, and now, with the introduction of several new services at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference,… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services unleashed another wave of technologies today at its re:Invent conference during a keynote by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels that stretched across two hours. Here’s a rundown… Read More
For developers, building an app is hard enough. Actually getting people to use a product is another story. That’s why Amazon today debuted Amazon Pinpoint, a new mobile marketing analytics feature… Read More
While many developers use build servers running in AWS, typically those build environments are deployed, configured and managed by the developers themselves. Amazon is hoping to change this by providing… Read More
Developers who deploy applications on AWS now have a new set of tools from Amazon to help them monitor and respond to application health and issues. At the AWS re:invent… Read More
A little more than a month after a massive online assault took down Reddit, Netflix, Twitter and other major online properties, cloud giant Amazon Web Services this morning unveiled a new… Read More
LAS VEGAS — This morning at the fifth annual re:Invent user’s conference, Seattle-based software-automation firm Chef announced that the full capabilities of its Automate commercial platform have been integrated into a new… Read More
LAS VEGAS — After his two-hour keynote at re:Invent 2016 this morning, Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy fielded questions from the 150 journalists who came to the conference from as… Read More
Today, Expedia is rolling out a new skill for Amazon’s Alexa-enabled devices in advance of the busiest travel season of the year. With the Expedia skill enabled, travelers can ask… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Snowball, a physical device introduced by Amazon last year to quickly move 50 TB of data out of a data center into AWS’s cloud, has proved extremely… Read More
Amazon today announced three new artificial intelligence-related toolkits for developers building apps on Amazon Web Services. At the company’s AWS re:invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon showed how developers can use… Read More
Amazon introduced a new SQL query service called Amazon Athena at the re:invent conference in Las Vegas this morning. Athena enables SQL queries directly on data stored in the AWS… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Amazon on Wednesday unveiled a host of new AWS features that make its online-computing rental simpler for basic users and far more powerful for those who need the… Read More
Providers of low-costs virtual private servers (VPS) are facing a major new competitor this morning, as AWS announced the new Amazon Lightsail service at the re:invent conference this morning in… Read More
Amazon Web Services wants enterprises to move their data storage to the cloud, replacing on-premise file servers, SANs and backup solutions with cloud-based storage. Today at the AWS re:invent conference in… Read More
When one of NASA’s top geeks talks to the cloud-computing geeks at Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference, you can bet the talk is not going to be just about outer… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services is making MXNet its deep-learning framework of choice, a top executive said this evening at the fifth annual re:Invent user’s conference. MXNet is an open-source… Read More
Large-scale data centers consume huge amounts of power, but Amazon Web Services is making an effort to move more of its consumption to renewable energy sources such as wind and… Read More
Amazon’s Alexa has gained many skills over the past year, such as being able to read tweets or deliver election results and fantasy football scores. Starting on Wednesday, you’ll be… Read More
Seattle-based Tableau Software is making a big move into the public cloud, expanding the subscription-based, hosted version of its data visualization technology, Tableau Online, beyond its own data centers and onto Amazon… Read More
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy told a room full of its cloud partners and consultants to fully commit to AWS if they want the cloud giant to point customers… Read More
House Republicans are voicing renewed doubts about NASA’s plan to have astronauts study a piece of an asteroid – a turn of events that was expected for the transition to the… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services made its first product announcement from its re:Invent 2016 conference here this evening, unveiling a new way for companies and other organizations to centrally manage multiple… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Easier-to-understand pricing. Best practices. GovCloud enhancements. Those are some of the topics the roughly 28,000 people pouring into the Venetian, Encore and Mirage hotels want to learn… Read More
LAS VEGAS — If you’re involved in information technology and the cloud, you’ve heard it before: trade capital expense (capex) for operating expense (opex)! Save tons of money on the cloud! You… Read More
Matson, a Honolulu-based shipping firm with 22 vessels serving Micronesia, the South Pacific and North America, has closed its four in-house data centers in favor of using Amazon Web Services, the… Read More
Amazon Web Services, now 10 years old, is by far the dominant public-cloud service, but can it retain its lead? More than 24,000 AWS customers and tire-kickers will be gathering… Read More