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• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  New tool uses S3 to reap AWS cost savings

  A new company has emerged from stealth with an alternative to AWS Auto Scaling Groups for SMBs in search of EC2 cost saving tricks.

• August 31, 2015 31 Aug'15

  Storage service provider makes use of Amazon S3 features

  ClearSky Data takes advantage of the scalability, redundancy and price of Simple Storage Service with its newly launched storage as a service platform.

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Amazon API Gateway emerges against heavy competition

  Microsoft and a host of startups offered API gateways years before Amazon jumped into the fray, but the company's API Gateway is still turning heads among AWS users.

• August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15

  Amazon S3 issues at the center of Monday morning snafu

  AWS customers' ability to launch new instances in the US-East region was affected by an uptick in error rates on the Simple Storage Service, according to Amazon's status page.

• August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15

  AWS products in need of UI facelift

  AWS shops want more finesse in AWS products' user interfaces, among other desired features in the near future.

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• August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15

  AWS roadmap should point the way 'up the stack'

  AWS is a dominant force in infrastructure as a service, but a new day is coming in cloud computing, IT pros say, and AWS will have to adjust.

• August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15

  Amazon ECS stands to iron out some kinks

  Monitoring and deep diagnostics on a per-container basis are two areas Amazon ECS can improve on in the early days of the container wars.

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  AWS and Google Docker cloud services face off

  Docker is the hottest thing in town and Amazon, Google and other major cloud providers all want enterprises to use the container service through them.

• July 29, 2015 29 Jul'15

  Amazon Aurora finally arrives -- and without keys

  Amazon Aurora is now available, but its features don't match that of the rest of Relational Database Service.

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  Lack of price cuts fueled AWS growth in Amazon earnings

  Amazon earnings show a dominant position for AWS, partly because price cuts have slowed in the last year.

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Amazon DynamoDB Streams and AWS Lambda -- better together

  New possibilities have opened up for cloud users now that the Amazon DynamoDB NoSQL database and AWS Lambda can be used together.

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  AWS RDS now HIPAA-eligible, but that's only half the battle

  AWS RDS, DynamoDB and EMR have been declared HIPAA-eligible, but healthcare organizations must do more to ensure HIPAA compliance.

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  AWS cloud cost management: The buck stops with you

  Getting stakeholders to help manage AWS costs shouldn't be like herding cats. Create a cost-conscious culture and follow these steps to control cloud costs.

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  New Amazon app development tools sweeten the pot

  Amazon launched a number of services that make it easier to develop cloud apps in AWS, including Amazon API Gateway, but some warn not to get in too deep.

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  AWS outage worries enterprise customers

  AWS outages are fewer and less frequent, but the cause of an outage this week has IT pros feeling apprehensive.