To fend off Google's Cloud SQL, RDS adds multi-zone replication, 99.95% uptime. RDS was beta? I've been reading about it for a few months now pending our recent move to AWS and the word beta never ...

News.com's Martin Lamonica has written a two page report on Amazon's utility computing initiatives under the title Amazon: Utility computing broker. As many of you know (because of the disclosures I ...

It has been over three years since Amazon Web Services introduced its Relational Database Service (RDS). But until now, RDS has ostensibly been in “beta”—available only to a subset of customers. This ...

The successful migration from purely private to public and hybrid cloud arrangements has substantially increased the level of confidence IT administrators have in the cloud. And among the top cloud ...