Amazon launches the Amazon Simple Queue Service
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The Amazon Simple Queue Service &quot;offers a reliable, highly scalable hosted queue for buffering messages between distributed application components.&quot; It's exposed via a Web services interface that provides seven simple operations (enqueue, read, dequeue, and so on). But unlike the other Amazon Web services, this one has nothing to do with the products that Amazon is selling. You can use it for anything at all.
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Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday launched a service that lets users watch video purchased on the Internet and sent to a home television hooked up to a TiVo set-top box.
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Amazon.com  on Thursday  unveiled a widely anticipated Internet service offering movie  and television shows that can be downloaded onto consumers'  personal computers.
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Amazon.com on Thursday unveiled a   widely anticipated Internet service offering movie and   television shows that can be downloaded onto consumers'   personal computers.
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On Wednesday, e-commerce giant Amazon.com officially launched its new A9.com search engine, with which it steps right into the battle for the Internet search market currently dominated by Google, with Yahoo!
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Google Inc. on Wednesday quietly launched a new search technology to help publishers sell books online, a fast-growing market dominated by Internet retailer Amazon.
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Amazon.com Inc. launched on Wednesday  a service that lets users watch video purchased on the Internet  and sent to a home television hooked up to a TiVo set-top box.
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(InfoWorld) - Best known as an online retailer, Amazon.com has been gradually building up the number of Web services it offers to developers, with the ultimate aim of turning that operation into a profitable business. Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, dubbed the company's growing move into developer Web services as "the hidden Amazon" during a keynote address at the Emerging Technologies Conference on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Cambridge campus Wednesday. About 200,000 developers have registered to use the 10 different Web services Amazon.com is providing so far, including three that Bezos highlighted in his talk -- Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Mechanical Turk is a Web service that allows developers to post questions to a large group of people to gain their insight on a particular issue. S3 and EC2 are Web services that let AmazonÂ sell excess storage and excess compute capacityÂ respectively to third-party developers. "These are all pay-by-drink services," Bezos said. "You can use and experiment." The S3 and EC2 Web services are proving particularly popular with developers at companies that can't afford to invest in huge amounts of hardware and storage that they only require on an occasional basis, to test out the scalability of their software. With EC2, a developer could pay Amazon.com $70 for continual access for one month to the computing power of one of the company's high-level servers or alternatively, pay the same amount of money to have access to 700 servers for a single hour, Bezos said. "It completely changes what's possible," Bezos said. "Everyone who's started a company wants to go directly from their idea to a successful product." Instead, the inventor faces a host of obstacles, such as lengthy purchasing decisions on what computer hardware to invest in and how to manage heterogenous environments. Bezos terms those IT obstacles as "muck" and is hoping that Amazon.com's Web services can help alleviate some of those issues. "We're working on a Web service to get rid of tax lawyers, but it's not working yet," he quipped. Amazon.com plans to make its Web services operation into "a very profitable business," Bezos said. The company intends to keep its focus on developers with the hope that third-party companies will then use Amazon.com Web services to create consumer-facing applications, he added. All of the services are work that Amazon.com has already done internally to run its own vast online operations. "The last few years, we've been exposing those things that we have to do anyway," Bezos said. "It's a relatively small step to say we're eating this dog food, we should share it with others." One area Amazon.com has had to figure out is what business model to use in selling the services. "It tickles me that we routinely send people bills for 18 cents," Bezos said. He added that such a process isn't cost effective at present, but is more about experimenting with a potential new business model.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Amazon.com  on Thursday  unveiled a widely anticipated Internet service offering movies  and TV shows that can be downloaded to personal computers,  moving it into a nascent and higher-margin business.
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Amazon.com on Thursday unveiled a  widely anticipated Internet service offering movies and TV  shows that can be downloaded to personal computers, moving it  into a nascent and higher-margin business.
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Amazon.com, the worldâs largest online retailer, will soon finally have one place to call home.
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A NEW service aimed at helping fix and install the "circuitry of modern life" was launched yesterday by the owner of Currys and PC World .
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Amazon.com Inc launched an early  version of its highly anticipated digital music download store,  which is seen as a potential rival to Apple Inc&#39;s dominant  iTunes system.
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The e-commerce Web services specialist is helping a growing list of retail manufacturers sell their wares via Amazon.
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Oracle-compatible database can be "rented" by using Amazon.com's Web services infrastructure.
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Amazon&#39;s data storage service was down for several hours on Friday morning, leaving businesses that rely on the service offline.As of around 9 a.m. on the West Coast of the U.S., the issue had been resolved, according to an Amazon employee posting on a user group forum. &quot;This morning&#39;s issue has been resolved, and the system is continuing to recover,&quot; wrote Kathrin, the Amazon employee, on the forum.She said that the company plans to post technical information about what exactly happened, but that the priority is to make sure the system is stable.Companies use Amazon&#39;s Simple Storage Service, known as S3, to store and quickly retrieve large amounts of data, often to run Web sites and services.A press spokesman said that one of three geographic locations for the service was unreachable for about two hours, but that it was operating at 99 percent of normal performance before 7 a.m. on the West Coast. &quot;We&#39;ve been communicating with our customers all morning via our support forums and will be providing additional information as soon as we have it,&quot; said Drew Herdener in a statement.Many customers appeared not to have gotten that communication. They complained on the forum about a lack of information from Amazon about the outage and when it would be fixed. One suggested that Amazon could have at least posted a message on the front page of the Web services site so that customers would be aware that the problem wasn&#39;t on their end.Others wrote about the problems that the outage was causing their businesses. &quot;It&#39;s becoming very embarrassing for us here,&quot; one wrote. &quot;We desperately need an update ... it&#39;s a huge hit on our reputation.&quot;Many of the users said that the service was down for around three hours.Gustavo, a user in Brazil, said that his company hosts more than 30,000 images from a large television station in Brazil. &quot;Now we are having several problems because of this S3 issue,&quot; he wrote. &quot;My company chose to work with Amazon because of its reliability.&quot;Late last year, Amazon introduced a new service level agreement for S3 that guaranteed 99.9 percent uptime each month. If the service slips below that level, the company promised to provide service credits to certain users.
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SEATTLE - Internet giant Amazon on Thursday threw down a gauntlet at Apple by launching Amazon Unbox, its long-anticipated movie-download service. Apple has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday at which it is widely expected to answer by expanding its popular iTunes digital store to include a similar service.