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 ...

For Amazon Web Services (AWS), the key to their data management strategy was that you need the right tool for the job. And so, AWS has amassed a portfolio of 15 databases, and over the past few years, ...

Amazon Web Services Inc., has just taken a shot at rival Oracle Corp., with the release of a new, cloud-based relational database service that it claims will deliver better performance at a fraction ...

It’s not exactly clear where we are in the Gartner Hype Cycle with respect to so-called “NoSQL” databases. We’ve definitely been through the Trough of Disillusionment, but are we in the Slope of ...

Here’s some unusual news: AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing arm, today announced that it plans to bring its Relational Database Service (RDS) to VMware, no matter whether that’s VMware Cloud on AWS or a ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a free tier for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The company also announced last night that it is dropping prices for its relational database service. AWS has ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched AWS Aurora – a MySQL-compatible database engine for its relational database service, billed by analysts as a “database game-changer” – at its re:Invent 2014 user ...