AWS Announces Seven New Compute Services and Capabilities to Support an Even Wider Range of Workloads

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Amazon's (AMZN) AWS Debuts New Greengrass Platform

November 30, 2016 1:47 PM EST

Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (Nasdaq: AMZN), announced AWS Greengrass, software which allows customers to run AWS compute, messaging, data caching, and sync capabilities on connected devices. With AWS Greengrass, devices can run AWS Lambda functions to perform tasks locally, keep device data in sync, and communicate with other devices while leveraging the full processing, analytics, and storage power of the AWS Cloud. AWS also announced a new Snowball data transfer... 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