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Charlie Oppenheimer may be a fan of Amazon Web Services. But, as he explains here, he's long felt that the economics of the choice between self-hosted and cloud provider had more texture to it than the patently attractive sounding “10 cents an hour."

An open source SDK for developing Windows Phone applications that connect to Amazon Web Services reached beta earlier this month.

Amazon Web Services launched a new database service on Wednesday that is designed let customers store huge amounts of unstructured data.

Amazon will let customers run micro-instances of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 for free on its EC2 service starting now, according to a new post to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog.

Such try-before-you-buy tactics have helped Amazon win converts to its cloud platform.

When the Kindle Fire came out last month, one of the biggest disappointments users had was that Amazon’s promise of “ultra-fast web browsing” seemed to be all talk.

In our original testing we found that Silk was actually slower going through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud servers than just connecting to the web directly.

Amazon’s position on the whole thing was that Silk would get faster as the back end accumulated more data to cache and predict user behavior.

InfoWorld: Open source history suggests that Eucalyptus, a private cloud implementation of Amazon Web Services, will triumph over OpenStack

Eucalyptus Systems today announced the upcoming launch of Eucalyptus 3, the third iteration of its open source on-premise IaaS cloud computing software.

The software will be available in the fourth quarter.

From Google to Amazon to Microsoft, the big names in the IT industry are hot on the cloud — and why not?

With benefits ranging from reduced lifecycle costs to improved scalability, there are some very compelling reasons for application developers and other businesses to look to the sky.

Just as you’ll find undesirable types lurking in the shadows of legitimate real-world business, however, so too will you find them online.

Microsoft launched its License Mobility with Software Assurance program this month, enabling companies to move on-premise application servers to public cloud hosting services, such as Amazon Web Services, without incurring additional software licensing costs.