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 ...

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 ...

Did you notice any apps not working on your phone? Perhaps no Netflix? That’s because for the past few hours, Amazon Web Services has been undergoing a widespread outage. This has affected Netflix, ...