Amazon Web Services Expands its Computing Reach with New Products

By Karla Robinson
February 23, 2012

The computing-for-hire division of Amazon called Amazon Web Services (AWS) is offering new products to make it easier to run workflow-based applications on Amazon computers or using its giant computing cloud.
The move is expected to help the division expand its reach to engineers and business people.
“This is a cheap (and probably easy) way for in-house engineers to build and deploy software that does tasks like analytics and billing, or internal financial operations and decision-making. It can even aid in the design logic of multiplayer games,” suggests The New York Times.
“This is a big deal, because it shows AWS moving more decisively into the kind of broad-based computing and software services that will put it in competition with the likes of Oracle and Hewlett-Packard,” adds the article.
“AWS is going from basic but arcane core computing tasks, like setting up storage systems, to well-defined business software. Over the past few weeks, AWS has also started offering practical database software for large-scale corporate operations, and data storage that easily backs up what was on a corporate system.”

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