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• Amazon load balancers designed to be simpler to use after console upgrade

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 21 May, 2012 23:26

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has upgraded its management console, allowing IT staff to use it to administer security protocols on the Elastic Load Balancing service, the company said in a blog post.

• SAP offers mobile device management on Amazon's cloud

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 15 May, 2012 07:44

  SAP's Afaria mobile device management tool is now available on Amazon Web Services' cloud, offered as a way to make it easier to start using the platform, SAP said at the Sapphire conference on Monday.

• Amazon Web Services personalizes CloudFront web hosting service

  By Peter Sayer | 14 May, 2012 21:59

  Amazon Web Services has extended its CloudFront web hosting service to include dynamic content that can be personalized for each visitor.

• Open source cloud project backers duking it out for support

  By Brandon Butler | 12 May, 2012 07:26

  In the less than two months since Citrix gave its CloudStack software an Apache license, cloud providers are beginning to support the open source model.

• Amazon Web Services helps users avoid bill shock

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 12 May, 2012 02:40

  Amazon Web Services users can now start receiving billing alerts that help them continuously monitor their cloud costs, the company said on Thursday.

• SAP certifies Business All-in-One for Amazon Web Services

  By Chris Kanaracus | 12 May, 2012 02:31

  SAP has certified its Business All-in-One ERP (enterprise resource planning) application for cloud-based deployments on Amazon Web Services, the companies announced Friday.

• Amazon Web Services aims to make life easier for Windows developers

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 May, 2012 02:07

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) now allows ASP.NET developers to take advantage of Elastic Beanstalk, which has been developed to make it easier to roll out cloud-based applications, the company said on Tuesday.

• Master MySQL in the Amazon cloud

  By Sean Hull | 30 April, 2012 20:15

  For many MySQL database admins, Amazon Web Services represents the brave new world of cloud computing -- one fraught with disappearing servers, disk I/O variability, and other shared resource challenges, not to mention questions regarding the security of data.

• Amazon outage one year later: Are we safer?

  By Brandon Butler | 27 April, 2012 20:32

  Amazon Web Services last April suffered what many consider to be the worst cloud service outage to date - an event that knocked big name customers such as Reddit, Foursquare, HootSuite, Quora and others offline, some for as many as four days.

• Amazon Web Services simplifies creation of private clouds

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 26 April, 2012 21:54

  Amazon Web Services has made it possible to create private clouds using CloudFormation, which automatically creates stacks of resources described using templates, the company said on Wednesday.

• Amazon CTO: 'You should be able to walk away' from cloud providers

  By Brandon Butler | 21 April, 2012 03:19

  At an Amazon Web Services summit event in New York City on Thursday, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels said one of the core philosophies related to the company's market-leading suite of infrastructure as a service products is that customers should be able to opt out whenever they want.

• Amazon Web Services offers one-click purchase of cloud apps from IBM, SAP, others

  By Chris Kanaracus | 19 April, 2012 23:06

  Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced a new online marketplace that allows customers to buy software and services from a variety of vendors at hourly rates through its cloud infrastructure platform.

• Sizzling open vs. proprietary debate heats up the cloud

  By Brandon Butler | 19 April, 2012 03:40

  It's turning into a mud-slinging affair in the cloud computing industry.

• Amazon lays groundwork for AWS Partner Network

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 18 April, 2012 21:19

  Amazon Web Services has announced a public beta of the new AWS Partner Network (APN), a global program that aims to boost the cloud-based businesses of partners with the help of sales and marketing support, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.

• New platform helps port COBOL apps to Amazon, Rackspace and other clouds

  By Chris Kanaracus | 13 April, 2012 04:39

  A new development platform announced Thursday by startup Heirloom Computing will allow companies to move legacy applications written in the venerable, but still-viable, COBOL language, which often run on mainframes, to a variety of cloud computing services.