Amazon on Monday opened up its SimpleDB cloud-based database service to an unlimited beta audience, after a year's private testing. On the AWS blog on Monday, Amazon wrote that it had "learned a lot ...

Amazon Web Services has started a public beta of online database service Amazon SimpleDB, and is offering customers a free tier of usage for at least the next six months. Under the beta, Amazon ...

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The price drop follows AWS reducing the cost of its CloudFront offering in June and a previous AWS price drop in February that included Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon RDS ...

Amazon is inviting students, educators and researchers to apply for grants that will give them free access to the company’s hosted computing services. The company expects to dole out up to $1 million ...

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 ...