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  • Amazon Web Services jumps on Spark bandwagon

    Amazon Web Services' EMR (Elastic MapReduce) service has been upgraded to handle Spark applications, giving enterprises that want to use the increasingly popular processing engine a way to do so without building their own infrastructure.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs17 June 15 21:19
  • How green is Amazon's cloud?

    Amazon Web Services has been under fire in recent weeks from a group of activist customers who are calling for the company to be more transparent in its usage of renewable energy.

    Written by Brandon Butler17 June 15 03:42
  • Amazon boosts cloud offerings with souped-up virtual servers

    Amazon Web Services has launched new, more powerful general-purpose and data-warehouse virtual servers as it works to stay ahead of the competition by offering users a wider array of cloud-service options.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs13 June 15 01:17
  • Amazon's Go SDK one step closer with preview release

    Amazon Web Services has announced the first Developer Preview of its SDK for the Go programming language, giving developers who want to integrate cloud services in their apps more choice.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs04 June 15 21:54
  • Amazon rules Gartner's magical box

    Has there ever been a Gartner Magic Quadrant as lopsided as the one issued this week for cloud infrastructure providers?

    Written by Joab Jackson23 May 15 04:56
  • AWS upgrades highlight growing focus on cloud management

    Amazon Web Services is hoping better management tools will convince enterprises to move more applications to the cloud, but getting their internal management processes right is even more important than anything the vendor can offer.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs19 May 15 22:32
  • The challenger’s cloud platform

    When your goal is to disrupt the market, it helps to use disruptive technologies as well, the CIO of Skinny demonstrates.

    Written by Divina Paredes11 May 15 06:00
  • Amazon helps automate software upgrades

    Amazon Web Services has expanded to data centers in Australia and Europe the availability of its CodeDeploy service for automating software updates.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs08 May 15 20:44