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 ...

When Swami Sivasubramanian was a Ph.D. student in 2005, he landed a research engineer internship at Amazon.com Inc. He soon realized that Amazon was more than an online retailer. It was a technology ...

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There are a lot of open-source databases out there, and ScyllaDB, a NoSQL variety, is looking to differentiate itself by attracting none other than Amazon users. Today, it announced a DynamoDB ...

The root of the problem was that its customers – including companies such as Signal– could not connect to DynamoDB, a system that stores customer data. AWS said this was because of “a latent defect ...

A massive AWS outage Monday that brought down some of the world’s most popular apps and services all started with a glitch.

NoSQL database vendor Scylla continues to target Apache Cassandra workloads with its latest open source release promoted as moving beyond “feature parity” with Cassandra while offering a “drop-in” ...

Amazon DynamoDB is a managed NoSQL database in the AWS cloud that delivers a key piece of infrastructure for use cases ranging from mobile application back-ends to ad tech. DynamoDB is optimized for ...

One of the joys of cloud computing is handing over your data to the cloud vendor and letting them handle the heavy lifting. Up until now that has meant they updated the software or scaled the hardware ...