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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced new database capabilities for Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB, and ...

Amazon DynamoDB is a managed NoSQL database in the AWS cloud that delivers a key piece of infrastructure for use cases ranging from mobile application back-ends to ad tech. DynamoDB is optimized for ...

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 ...

Relational databases, once the epitome of data management technology, are becoming increasingly archaic as single servers lack the nuance to support the large quantities of data generated by modern ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) added encryption-at-rest to Amazon DynamoDB, increasing security options for its NoSQL cloud database service. While not directly related to this move, AWS was mentioned ...