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We're still waiting on a South Pole region for AWS, but it might be a while before Amazon sets up shop in Antarctica. However, the company announced today that they've

GoGrid became the second cloud services vendor to offer dedicated intramural connections across its network today. Amazon has been offering a somewhat similar service called Direct Connect since August. Called

If you are looking for a textbook example of how not to design your website shopping experience, take a look at what has happened recently with Target.com. They left their

Amazon has declared its Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI) production ready. With the update, Amazon is introducing a security center to track security and privacy issues, providing 50 new packages

If you're looking for new, but obvious, ways to cut government waste, try this: According to a cloud computing strategy report last February by U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra,

We have written before about a little-known facet of AWS, the ability to ship your physical hard drive off to that Big Cloud in Seattle and have them make a

Almost as galling as the Amazon Web Services outage itself is a the litany of blog posts, such as this one and this one, that place the blame not

Amazon EC2 is down on the East Coast and it is interrupting service to major consumer sites and platforms such as Heroku. The service issues have led to outages

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels is the lead keynote today at CloudConnect, an event that has sold out this year with about 3,000 people in attendance. Lew Tucker, Cloud CTO,

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is opening a new data center in Tokyo, its fifth overall and second in Asia. The new AWS data center is noteworthy as we are seeing

Amazon Web Services is on an aggressive development cycle. Its latest announcement comes today with what it calls AWS CloudFormation, a service that Amazon's Jeff Barr describes in a manner

Amazon is now offering hosting for static Web sites through S3. It makes it possible now for people with blogs and static Web sites to get the power of

Amazon Web Services announced today the launch of Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), a bulk e-mail delivery service. The e-mail marketing service gives customers the ability to send mass

This was a busy week for the cloud. The biggest news was Amazon.com's entry into the platform-as-a-service business with its Elastic Beanstalk. But there were several other big announcements

Amazon Web Services announced today that it's reducing the cost of existing premium support plans by 50% and adding two new support options to its selection of plans. The

In a post last week about lessons learned using Amazon Web Services, Netflix's John Ciancutti revealed that the company built something called "Chaos Monkey" to ensure that individual components

Amazon.com issued a statement today regarding its decision to stop hosting Wikileaks' main site yesterday, claiming the organization's site violated the Amazon Web Services terms of service and that

Earlier today, we reported the news that Amazon.com has ceased hosting Wikileaks. The site went down for a while, but is back up and hosted in Sweden. Senator Joe

Yesterday we reported that Wikileaks' web site suffered a denial of service (DOS) attack just before the publication of its most recent cache of documents. The site was down

Amazon.com is working closely with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to provide cloud computing services for the space agency's The Mars Exploration Rover project, NASA announced today. Although the

Amazon.com is buying more land in Oregon, showing again why the the Pacific Northwest is a choice region for companies such as Google, Facebook and T-Mobile to build data centers.

OpenStack will come out with its first release tomorrow. We'll have a post up later all about it. From where we sit, the OpenStack seems important enough. Really, how else

In the past few days we have seen two new initiatives that involve companies known for their open-source roots. Red Hat announced it is open-sourcing its Deltacloud API. Eucalyptus is

The news from Microsoft this week about its private cloud initiative points to an undeniable trend. The concept of the private cloud is here to stay. This sticks in the

One of the lingering problems with adoption of cloud computing has been the issue of facilitating access - both for the end-user and for the IT professional. In a move