Amazon Web Services

Amazon is the clear leader in IaaS, but that it not for competitors’ want of trying. Two top rivals are Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Google’s Compute Engine.

Red Hat is so confident you’ll like the way its software runs in the AWS cloud they’ll let you try it out for free.

The best workloads for the cloud are those that are already running as virtual machines. Now there is a new way to migrate those workloads to AWS.

CloudBerry Lab, an AWS partner and backup provider, recently released data suggesting that there has to be a better backup way.

The traditional way of announcing tech news, the good old-fashioned press release, is not often ditch in favor of a simple blog post. And so it is that Amazon revealed that CloudSearch is now up to 50% cheaper to operate.

Many IT pros place great faith in Gartner’s Magic Quadrants, and vendors will pay tens of thousands of dollars to consultants who will help them just get considered.

The tech world is full of monopolies, and in the cloud space, particularly Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Amazon makes its competitors look like mere wannabees. Oh, the competition is tough, with massive forces such as Microsoft Azure, the Google Compute Engine, Rackspace and Verizon, aligned against Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Developers looking to build apps that can respond in complex ways to events now have a new option from Amazon.

A year ago Amazon made a bold move into the world of virtual desktops, a market dominated by Citrix the way that virtual servers are dominated by VMware.

The beauty of the cloud is there is less for IT to do, less hardware to manage, the option of automated backup, and hands-free application management.