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 ...

It's hard to overestimate Amazon's influence on cloud computing and on NoSQL databases. Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the first and still is the leading concrete example of an infrastructure as a ...

When Swami Sivasubramanian was a Ph.D. student in 2005, he landed a research engineer internship at Amazon.com Inc. He soon realized that Amazon was more than an online retailer. It was a technology ...

Behind every great ecommerce website is a database, and in the early 2000s Amazon.com’s database was not keeping up with the company’s business. Part of the problem was that Amazon didn’t have just ...

Amazon just announced a large price reduction for its cloud-hosted NoSQL DynamoDB database service. Provision throughput capacity – that is, the number of reads and writes your application uses – now ...

Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, today announced the general availability of Clumio Backtrack for Amazon DynamoDB, an advanced ...