Microsoft has announced that its cloud services division including Windows Azure has surpassed more than $1 billion in sales, which goes on to prove how the software giant is continuously making inroads into the cloud market.
Amazon has launched a new set of standard instances for their EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) service that are optimised for “media encoding, batch processing, caching, and web serving.”
If you are a Ruby developer and were looking into Amazon Web Services for hosting, they may just have some good news for you.
Amazon has unveiled a new cloud-based storage solution called Glacier that’s is designed to be used for storing large volumes of archived data.
Amazon has just added support for Python applications to their Elastic Beanstalk service.
The historic landing of Mars rover Curiosity, which JPL streamed to hundred thousands of concurrent viewers, was enabled by Adobe Media Server and Amazon Web Services (AWS) developed on a combination of Adobe Flash Media Server, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances running the popular nginx caching tier, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Route 53 for DNS management, and Amazon CloudFront for content delivery.
