Media Coverage

Feb 09, 2010

Computer Weekly: Cloud shrinks IT costs by 90%

“Channel 4 pre-empted server busy signals by dialling up extra processing power from Amazon’s EC2 service on a hour-to-hour basis, Harris said.”
Dec 11, 2009

eWeek: AWS Toolkit for Eclipse is Named 2009 Enterprise IT Products of the Year

“Amazon was defining the “cloud” before the term even existed, and it built its Amazon Web Services as a natural spinoff of its own infrastructure. During the past several years, Amazon has continued to refine its services, but programming for AWS hasn’t been easy—until the release of AWS Toolkit for Eclipse, that is.”
Oct 27, 2009

eWeek: Amazon Launches Relational Database for the Cloud

“I found Amazon RDS to be a very efficient way to deploy MySQL, and a natural fit for cloud-based application deployment,” said David Tompkins, a senior computer scientist at Adobe Systems’ Advanced Technology Labs. “The instance is up and running in minutes, and very sensible defaults are baked in. The APIs provide streamlined administration, with an ability to programmatically automate administration functions — which is a key feature in cloud-based applications. Most importantly, Amazon RDS provides pain-free scalability – which is typically one of the most time-consuming and expensive aspects of database deployment.”
Aug 27, 2009

ComputerWorldUK: Amazon Web Services Is Addressing Enterprises’ Top Issues

James Staten, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research reports in this article. “Attention enterprises — Amazon Web Services LLC is serious about wanting your business. Over the past 6 months the cloud computing leader has made several enhancements to its services that specifically address the security concerns of enterprise infrastructure & operations (I&O) professionals as well as security & risk professionals.”
Jun 30, 2009

NPR: Mechanical Turk Interview

Sharon Chiarella, Vice President of Amazon Mechanical Turk is interviewed on National Public Radio (NPR) and the interviewer looks at how employers and workers are both finding success on the Mechanical Turk marketplace.



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