Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Kinesis Handles Large-Scale, Real-Time Data Processing

Yesterday at the 2013 AWS re:Invent Conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Kinesis, a fully managed service designed to handle real-time streaming and high-volume data processing at any scale. The announcement comes on the heels of the launch of CloudTrail, a new web service that records API calls made to AWS accounts and then provides log files via Amazon's S3 bucket.

Brief

Janet Wagner

News Services, Data, Real Time

11-15-2013

TopCoder Issues Amazon AppStream API Challenge

As the amount of processing power that can be affordably invoked via the cloud continues to increase, applications that were once thought too impractical to build are suddenly quite feasible. A good example of that is AppStream, a new service that Amazon is beta testing that allows graphically and resource-intensive applications to be extended out to any number of devices that previously would not have had the processing capabilities to run them.

News

Michael Vizard

News Services, Tools, Enterprise

11-19-2013

A Unified API for MySQL in the Clouds

Back in May I wrote about the race for either unified APIs or API standards to bridge the growing number of APIs in specific industries or areas. Unified APIs are created by a third party provider to bridge multiple APIs, while API standards would potentially create an industry-wide standard of how APIs should operate.

News

Kin Lane

Cloud, Database

11-30-2011