Posts Tagged ‘amazon’

So Amazon is definitely up to something.  I noted yesterday  that AWS offers free database access and now Amazon is touting something almost every enterprise site needs with a Sign Sign On (SSO) and Identity Management service.  Jack McCarthy of CRN has an article about the new service in the AWS Marketplace.  Clearly Amazon is […]

GigaOM has an interesting article about why they think Amazon and Salesforce are blowing away the competition when it comes to cloud offerings.  Keep in mind that author James Urquhart is saying that these two are leaving companies like Google and Microsoft in the dust.  Here’s a couple quotes before my thoughts. I almost feel silly […]

Techcrunch has an interesting article about the top 10 biggest mistakes made with Amazon Web Services. While I don’t want to just copy what they say, I can see a lot of easy mistakes.  For those who think in terms of an internal data center that has to scale to meet all future needs and […]

Last October I posted about Amazon’s foray into book publishing in order to get around fixed pricing agreements on e-books. An example showed the same price for a paperback book as the Kindle e-book, despite the added costs of actually creating the book. Several news sources are reporting that the Department of Justice has looked […]

A while ago I blogged about the Kindle Fire and how excited I was about their Silk Browser.  Well, I ended up getting one and have had two months to really dig into it.  Here’s what I discovered, it’s really a cloud device rather than a true tablet. I’ll start with what you expect from […]

A while ago I blogged about the Kindle Fire and how excited I was about their Silk Browser.  Well, I ended up getting one and have had two months to really dig into it.  Here’s what I discovered, it’s really a cloud device rather than a true tablet. I’ll start with what you expect from […]

How did Amazon get its start? The business model originally focused on selling books. Then Amazon moved into general retailing, where it experienced rapid growth and success. Now it is moving in new directions that play to its software strengths – content distribution and creation. Technically, Amazon has always been a content distributor. Authors wrote books […]

The much heralded Amazon Android-based tablet, the Kindle Fire, has now been released and much was made in its pre-release state on how it was going to be the next iPad killer, titles previously held by the Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.  Now that the device has seen the light of day, is […]

So Amazon just introduced a new device called the Kindle Fire which is an Android based 7 inch tablet.  At $199, the price makes it worth looking at. However, I think a number of people will miss perhaps an even bigger story. Amazon released Amazon Silk at the same time. Amazon Silk is a cloud […]

Software is eating the world. About a month ago Marc Andreessen, part-owner of venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz, wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal entitled Why Software is Eating the World in which he stated that, although the overall stock market and economy have tumbled recently, the United States is still in a favorable […]

Browser extensions and add-ons are typically reserved for those working on the creation side of technology or for those avid feature explorers who like to “trick out their ride” while surfing the net. I just recently discovered an extension for the Amazon wish list that was advertised in just the right way for the type […]

eWeek has an article about Amazon’s new CloudFormation services. Think of it like this.  If you have an application, chances are that this application relies on a variety of database, application, storage, and other services.  When you want to scale up and down or you want to move things around, it can be a pain […]