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Two months ago, Amazon - which has taken to sharing some of its massive computing power with mere mortals as a means of developing additional revenue streams - announced that

The biggest news of the day so far has been Amazon's launch of their DRM-free MP3 store, which competes with Apple's iTunes. I find it kind of amusing, however, that

Alex Iskold is reporting live from ETech 2007 Werner Vogels, VP and CTO of Amazon.com, took the ETech stage to discuss the challenges in building a large-scale, reliable web infrastructure.

Today's big news is that Amazon's S3 online storage service has experienced significant downtime. Allen Stern, who hosts his blog's images on S3, reported that the downtime lasted 3.5 over

Dave Winer points to my post about Portals 2.0 and questions if there are really only 3 powerful Internet companies: "Richard MacManus talks about The Big 3, and there is

Amazon is turning to the public for help, asking for public data sets in an attempt to create a cloud data service that provides what they describe as a "convenient

Amazon just released a free e-book reader application for Windows PCs. The Kindle for PC application allows Amazon customers to read Kindle books on their Windows XP, Windows Vista and

Rumors of a potential acquisition by Amazon today sent shares of Netflix up over 5.5%. Amazon closed down nearly 2%. The price of the rumored acquisition is anywhere from $1.5

Think of this post as a mashup of two of my favorite social media books: Naked Conversations meets Tactical Transparency. And in the interest of transparency, I should disclose that

Last night Amazon announced the limited beta launch of the newest in its growing family of web services, SimpleDB. Amazon's latest service brings the cloud computing power of EC2 to