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Amazon debuts content delivery network service

Amazon has launched a hosted content-delivery network (CDN) service that it first announced in a preliminary test version two months ago.



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Salesforce.com links with Amazon and Facebook

Salesforce.com has linked its Force.com platform to services from Facebook and Amazon.com, the companies said Monday.



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Amazon opens up beta of Windows Server, SQL Server on EC2

Amazon Web Services Thursday launched a public beta of its cloud computing service running Windows Server and SQL Server, marking the first time developers and businesses can use the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to build and host applications on Microsoft's software.



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Hooking your apps into Amazon Web Services

Connecting your application into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) isn't complicated, particularly if you've done Web service programming on other projects.



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