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 ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced several new capabilities for Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB, designed to support the most demanding workloads that need to be operated across multiple ...

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 ...

Amazon Web Services updated its portfolio of database services today to provide customers with increased reliability, scale, and ease of use. The company’s Aurora database went serverless, while a new ...

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 ...