Amazon Web Services articles

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  Amazon's cloud services cleared for US government use

  By Aaron Souppouris on May 21, 2013 04:13 am + 9 comments

  Amazon's Cloud services are now approved for government use in the US. The Department of Health and Continue reading…

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  Surprise! Jeff Bezos explains to Amazon investors why no profits are a good thing

  By Tim Carmody on April 12, 2013 04:50 pm + 178 comments

  Jeff Bezos' annual letter to Amazon investors is always worth reading, a peek into the mind of Continue reading…

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  Amazon reportedly building a private cloud for the CIA

  By Nathan Ingraham on March 20, 2013 12:13 pm + 12 comments

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) power many popular and essential cloud-based internet tools, ranging from Continue reading…

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  Why Amazon is the only unstoppable monster in tech today

  By Tim Carmody on January 7, 2013 05:25 pm + 134 comments

  On Monday, Amazon briefly broke its all-time record share price on the NASDAQ exchange, hitting a Continue reading…

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  Amazon apologizes for Christmas Eve outage that knocked Netflix streaming offline (update)

  By Chris Welch on December 31, 2012 05:12 pm + 39 comments

  Some Netflix customers were unable to stream movies and TV shows on Christmas Eve thanks to an Continue reading…

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  Netflix streaming down on some devices due to Amazon issues (update)

  By Bryan Bishop on December 24, 2012 08:15 pm + 73 comments

  It hasn't been the best year for Amazon Web Services, with the suite of cloud computing products t Continue reading…

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  Inside the Obama Campaign's Team Tech

  By Jeff Blagdon on November 15, 2012 04:47 am + 30 comments

  Over the course of the recent election cycle you might have heard references to the Obama Continue reading…

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  Reddit, Flipboard, 'Minecraft,' and others taken out by another Amazon Web Services outage

  By T.C. Sottek on October 22, 2012 03:32 pm + 112 comments

  Several sites and services hosted on Amazon's network are getting dinged by an outage today, Continue reading…

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  Netflix releases 'Chaos Monkey' code to help developers defend against outages

  By Dieter Bohn on July 30, 2012 10:11 pm + 1 comments

  For over a year now, Netflix has been using a "Simian Army" of apps designed to attack its own Continue reading…

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  Amazon explains how heavy storms caused outages for Netflix, Instagram, and more

  By Evan Rodgers on July 3, 2012 05:56 pm + 65 comments

  Servers powering Amazon Web Services went down last Friday evening, causing outages for Netflix, Continue reading…