• Analytics Firms Unveil Integrations for AWS CloudTrail

  At the Amazon re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week software vendors Splunk, Sumo Logic and Alert Logic made announcements, supporting the new CloudTrail service from Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Network Vendor Rolls Out Enhancements for AWS

  At the Amazon re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week, vendors Riverbed, Panzura, and F5 made announcements supporting Amazon Web Services.

• Amazon Enters Desktop Virtualization Market With WorkSpaces

  Amazon Web Services rolled out a flurry of new services at its AWS re:Invent user conference this week in Las Vegas, including a new managed desktop computing service called WorkSpaces,

• Two more things about PostgreSQL

  PostgreSQL 9.4 will replace the default JSON column type with Hstore. From InfoQ : PostgreSQL 9.4 will be reintroducing Hstore asthe column type of choice for document-styledata. This supersedes PostgreSQL's JSON supportwhich was introduced in version 9.0. Being astring-based representation,…

• Amazon Kinesis - Real-Time Processing of Streaming Big Data

  Imagine a situation where fresh data arrives in a continuous stream, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You need to capture the data, process it, and turn it into actionable conclusions as soon as possible, ideally within a...

• A New Generation of EC2 Instances for Compute-Intensive Workloads

  Many AWS customers run CPU-bound, compute-intensive workloads on Amazon EC2, often using parallel processing frameworks such as Hadoop to distribute work and collect results. This includes batch data processing, analytics, high-performance scientific computing, 3D rendering, engineering, and…

• Coming Soon - The I2 Instance Type - High I/O Performance Via SSD

  Earlier today, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels announced the upcoming I2 instance type from the main stage of AWS re:Invent! The I2 instances are optimized for high performance random I/O. They are a great fit for transactional systems and NoSQL databases...

• Automated Cross-Region Snapshot Copy for Amazon Redshift

  As part of our plan to make it even easier for you to build and run AWS applications that have a global footprint, I am happy to announce that Amazon Redshift now has the ability to automatically back up your...

• Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL - Now Available

  The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS among friends) launched in 2009 with support for MySQL. We added Oracle Database in 2011 and Windows SQL Server in 2012. Today we are adding support for PostgreSQL. After personally fielding hundreds requests for...