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Article | 21/05/2013 Amazon Web Services gets FedRAMP certification for US government cloud use
Amazon Web Services has finally received certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, which the company said will lower ...
Article | 16/05/2013 SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem
Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's...
Article | 16/05/2013 Amazon gives DynamoDB a performance boost
Amazon Web Services is improving the performance of its DynamoDB database service with Parallel Scan, which gives users faster access to their tables.
Article | 7/05/2013 Amazon adds to developer choices with JavaScript SDK for Web Services
The general release of the AWS (Amazon Web Services) SDK for Node.js is available for download, allowing developers to build server-side applications ...
Article | 1/05/2013 Amazon Web Services launches new certification program
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a Global Certification Program, which will allow solutions architects, systems operations administrators, and d...
Article | 24/04/2013 Amazon looks to move security appliances to the cloud, says CISO
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption featur...
Article | 23/04/2013 Amazon's data warehouse, high storage instances come to Europe
Amazon Web Services has made data warehouse service Redshift available from its European data center, allowing information that for regulatory reasons...
Article | 9/04/2013 Amazon upgrades Elastic Beanstalk for .Net applications
Amazon Web Services' Elastic Beanstalk for .Net applications now supports configuration files to simplify cloud setup and integration with Amazon's pr...
Article | 5/04/2013 Amazon Web Services and Google lower cloud pricing
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has lowered the cost of running Windows on its cloud, while Google announced a reduction on all Compute Engine pricing. Goog...
Article | 27/03/2013 AWS takes aim at security conscious enterprises with new appliance
In a bid to improve data security, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched AWS CloudHSM, which uses a separate appliance to protect cryptographic keys ...
Article | 8/03/2013 Amazon Web Services option gives easier entry to SAP's HANA
SAP's HANA in-memory database has become the centerpiece of the software vendor's technology strategy, both for high-speed analytics and in support of...
Article | 25/02/2013 Qualys streamlines vulnerability scanning of Amazon cloud instances
Security firm Qualys has improved the integration of its QualysGuard vulnerability management service with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday, allowi...
Article | 19/02/2013 Amazon launches Chef-based service for management platform OpsWorks
Amazon Web Services has introduced OpsWorks, a cloud-based platform powered by the Chef framework, which will give enterprises more integrated tools f...
Article | 15/02/2013 Amazon's cloud-based data warehouse Redshift becomes generally available
Amazon Web Services has made available to all users its cloud-based data warehouse Redshift, which it pitches as a lower-cost alternative to on-premis...
Article | 5/02/2013 Amazon lets users track their cloud-based databases with texts, email
Users of Amazon Web Services' Relational Database Service (RDS) can now keep track of their databases with new notifications via email and SMS.