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• Amazon launches German cloud region in nod to privacy concerns

  Amazon Web Services launched a new region of its cloud in Germany Thursday, in part to serve customers who want to keep data within their country's borders.

• AWS readies for major reboot

  Amazon Web Services will be updating a substantial number of its Cloud servers, and has asked customers to re-launch their instances in the coming days, according to AWS consultants

• 5 key takeaways from Amazon's big Cloud day

  Amazon Web Services continued to push the IaaS market forward today by challenging established cloud players like Box and Dropbox with the company's own document collaboration platform and rolling out new features to its public Cloud focused on supporting mobile applications.

• Amazon slashes prices up to 80% to lure public-cloud weary enterprises

  Amazon Web Services Wednesday dropped the price of its dedicated instances, which are virtual machines allocated to individual customers and that do not run on shared hardware.

• VMware: We're building one of the biggest SDN deployments in the industry

  VMware hopes to make the networking components of its soon-to-be-released vCloud Hybrid Service one of its biggest selling points, and in doing so the company plans to build one the largest software-defined networking (SDN) deployments in the industry.

• IBM complaint might have just cost Amazon $600M CIA cloud deal

  Amazon Web Services may have just lost out on a $600 million contract to supply cloud computing services to the Central Intelligence Agency, after the federal government upheld a protest that IBM had made related to the awarding of the contract.

• IBM: Hey CIA, why let Amazon build you a private cloud?

  Amazon pulled off a coup a few months back, reportedly securing a $600 million contract to build a cloud for the CIA.

• Public cloud shakeup: VMware in, Dell out, and OpenStack in limbo?

  It's been a busy week in the cloud. Dell ditched plans to build its own cloud and instead will work with partners, while focusing on private clouds. In an opposite move, VMware revealed its plans for how it will compete in the public cloud market.

• Newvem expands to monitor Azure and Amazon clouds

  Newvem, which sells a tool that allows users to track and optimize their use of cloud computing resources, has expanded its software's functionality to monitor not just Amazon Web Services, but now Microsoft Azure now as well.

• Former Amazon cloud engineer spills to Reddit audience

  Usually Amazon Web Services, which many consider to be the leader in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing market, is pretty hush-hush about the internal workings of its massive cloud.

• Platform-as-service offerings blurring lines between cloud packages

  Cloud-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is for renting storage and compute capacity from a service provider, delivered via an Internet connection. Similarly, software as a service (SaaS) is for accessing applications that are hosted in the cloud.

• Cloud fight keeps Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Rackspace clamouring for enterprise customers

  Amazon Web Services is attempting to distance itself from other cloud providers by enhancing its services to incorporate the differentiating features of its competitors.

• Google Cloud open for business – includes $US400 cover charge

  Google earlier this month made a significant Cloud announcement, opening up its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering to customers and removing the beta tag from the service.

• Nonstop cloud computing price war: Amazon, Google both drop rates again

  Just as industry watchers have predicted, the race to the bottom for cloud computing prices continues.

• Cloud prices: How low can they go?

  Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud providers are battling in a price war that has seen 29 price reductions by the four major providers during the past 14 months, a trend industry analysts expect to continue.