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 ...

Google’s Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon’s DynamoDB “for most workloads,” Google says. And Google doesn’t want you to forget it. Google today announced that Cloud Spanner, its distributed ...

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 ...

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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 Web Services Inc. today announced several new capabilities for Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB, designed to support the most demanding workloads that need to be operated across multiple ...

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DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services and affecting many customers. Monday got ...