Among the many announcements made at the re:Invent conference last week by Amazon Web Services Inc. was a preview for its new mobile hub that allows you to build, test, and monitor mobile apps that use Amazon cloud services. Basically, with the AWS Mobile Hub, now in beta, AWS is catching up to competitors in the Mobile-Back-End-as-a-Service (MBaaS) arena. The […]

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), has added another X1 instance to its SAP HANA-optimized Elastic Compute Cloud Cloud (EC2) instances. Monday’s announcement of the x1.16xlarge was the smaller of the two X1 instances. This instance has 976 GiB memory and supports up to 64 virtual CPUs. It is half the size the x1.32xlarge that AWS launched in May. Other specs […]

Amplify Libraries: Open-source libraries and UI components to add cloud-powered functionality Amplify: An interactive toolchain that creates and manages a back-end to apps. Amplify Console is an AWS service that hosts full-stack, serverless web applications AWS stated in a May 27 blog that Amplify iOS and Amplify Android included libraries and tools (CLI Toolchain and IDE Helpers) that allow mobile […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS), is offering five smaller instances of its largest Elastic Compute cloud (EC2) instance. This week, the company announced an expansion of its X1e instance group. This brings the total number EC2 instances for memory-intensive applications to six. The x1e.32xlarge, which was launched in September, is the largest. The x1e.32xlarge was billed as AWS’ largest cloud-native instance, […]

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), launched Open Distro for Elasticsearch to address the conflict between cloud operators, and the creators open-source projects whose code is used for cloud-for-pay services. AWS was under fire when it announced January’s Amazon DocumentDB service with “MongoDB compatibleity.” Some observers were critical of MongoDB Inc. which created the database and offers it as a proprietary […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS), has acquired a security software company with close ties to U.S. National Security Agency. Sqrrl Data, a Cambridge, Mass.-based company, announced its acquisition by AWS in a notice posted to its Web site this week. “We are thrilled to announce that Sqrl was acquired by Amazon. In a note, Mark Terenzoni, CEO of Sqrl, stated that […]

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