RDS
27th Sep 2012
Amazon takes the lead in providing high performance I/O in the Cloud
One of the key themes for AWS in 2012 is enhanced I/O performance. In the last few months, many services of AWS have been upgraded to take advantage of this feature. The recent service to get this feature was Amazon RDS.
10th May 2012
Amazon Enters Microsoft's Turf of .NET PaaS
The PaaS competition heats up with Amazon adding ASP.NET support to its Elastic Beanstalk environment and MS SQL Server to the RDS offerings. This is a significant announcement from Amazon as it draws the battle lines with Microsoft which is aggressively positioning Windows Azure as the .NET Cloud offering to the developer community.
14th Feb 2012
AWS & Windows Azure - Side by Side Comparison
Many customers evaluating Public Cloud will invariably consider Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure. With both the stacks adding new services at a rapid pace, it becomes hard to understand how the features stack up. This is an attempt to put them side by side and do a quick comparison of the features. We will be updating this grid to reflect the latest additions to either stacks.