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Amazon's (AMZN) AWS Launches Several New Compute Services and Capabilities

November 30, 2016 1:46 PM EST

Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the next generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Memory Optimized, Compute Optimized, and High input/output (I/O) instances, and added two new hardware acceleration options to its range of compute services. The new F1 instance is the clouds first customer-programmable, hardware-accelerated compute instance with Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs allow customers to easily attach low-cost, professional grade graphics... More

Amazon's (AMZN) AWS Launches Athena

November 30, 2016 1:45 PM EST

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (Nasdaq: AMZN), announced Amazon Athena, a serverless query service that makes it easy to analyze data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can point Amazon Athena at their data stored in Amazon S3 and begin using standard SQL to run queries and get results in seconds. With Amazon Athena there are no clusters to manage and tune, no... More

Amazon's (AMZN) AWS Launches PostgreSQL Compatibility

November 30, 2016 1:45 PM EST

Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (Nasdaq: AMZN), announced it has added full PostgreSQL compatibility to Amazon Aurora, the AWS database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. With Amazon Auroras new PostgreSQL support, customers can get up to several times better performance than the typical PostgreSQL database and take advantage of the scalability, durability, and security capabilities of Amazon Aurora all for... More