Amazon Web Services has launched a hosted database service called DynamoDB, stepping into competition with platform-as-a-service providers such as Salesforce.com, Oracle and others. The service takes ...

On the evening of October 20th, one year ago, several of my work screens froze.The cause was a large-scale outage that ...

Amazon Web Services has revealed that its efforts to recover from the massive mess at its US-EAST-1 region caused other services to fail.… The most recent update to the cloud giant’s service health ...

With the release of DocumentDB, AWS now has two NoSQL document database services. DocumentDB, a managed service that launches databases in the cloud, joins AWS' DynamoDB -- a key/value store that also ...

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon RDS for MySQL zero-ETL integrations with Amazon Redshift enable customers to analyze data from multiple sources without building and maintaining ...

DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services and affecting many customers. Monday got ...

For a personal web service (Lambda + API Gateway + DynamoDB + S3), my AWS bill for one month was about three times the usual ...

Google’s Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon’s DynamoDB “for most workloads,” Google says. And Google doesn’t want you to forget it. Google today announced that Cloud Spanner, its distributed ...

When AWS suffered a series of cascading failures that crashed its systems for hours in late October, the industry was once again reminded of its extreme dependence on major hyperscalers. (As if to ...