Amazon Web Services users can now start receiving billing alerts that help them continuously monitor their cloud costs, the company said on Thursday. full story ![]()

Companies like Cloudyn want to make Amazon Web Services less of a mystery to its users, but they have lots of competition -- including from Amazon itself.
gigaom.com (21 days ago)

Amazon Web Services is launching a new mobile engineering effort out of Palo Alto, Calif., according to its job postings.
gigaom.com (1 month and 26 days ago)
The general release of the AWS (Amazon Web Services) SDK for Node.js is available for download, allowing developers to build server-side applications in JavaScript that then can run on Amazon's cloud. The free SDK follows a preview version that Amazon announced in December last year. One of the advantages of Node.js is that developers can scale their applications without...
pcworld.com (13 days ago)
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) said it had bolstered its fastest-growing unit, Amazon Web Services, or AWS, by adding AWS OpsWorks, design software tools that allow developers to manage all tasks required to model and manage their applications. The Seattle-based e-retailer and content provider said the new functions provide more sophisticated development and management tools.
ibtimes.com (3 months ago)

We never really know how big Amazon Web Services is. But we do know that the overall category it resides hit the $750 million mark last quarter.
gigaom.com (25 days ago)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption features, as it looks to increase the level of protection users can get in its cloud.For Amazon, proving its cloud computing platform can offer the same level of security as traditional hardware and software has been an ongoing...
pcworld.com (26 days ago)
Oppenheimer analyst Tim Horan says Amazon will have to spin off Amazon Web Services to attain the scale it needs.
gigaom.com (3 months and 8 days ago)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has lowered the cost of running Windows on its cloud, while Google announced a reduction on all Compute Engine pricing. Google has also expanded the number of virtual servers users can choose from and made its cloud more Euro friendly.Competition in the market for public cloud platform and infrastructure services is heating up, as vendors compete...
pcworld.com (1 month and 14 days ago)
A few months ago we wrote about Amazon's new virtual currency for Kindle users called "coins" to purchase apps, games, and in-app items on the Kindle Fire. Today, Amazon announced that customers can now use Amazon Coins, and to celebrate the launch, Amazon just deposited 500 free Coins-a $5 value - into all U.S. Kindle Fire users' accounts.
forbes.com (7 days ago)
Amazon Web Services' Elastic Beanstalk for .Net applications now supports configuration files to simplify cloud setup and integration with Amazon's private cloud and relational database.This year has seen Amazon Web Services (AWS) increasingly focus on making its cloud easier to manage and continuing to develop Elastic Beanstalk is part of that strategy.With Elastic...
pcworld.com (1 month and 10 days ago)
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