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• Amazon adds CloudWatch to management tool

  Amazon has added CloudWatch to the list of services that are integrated with its AWS (Amazon Web Services) Management Console, allowing IT staff to create alarms and troubleshoot from a browser.

• Amazon's Beanstalk aims to make Web Services easier to use

  Amazon on Wednesday planned to introduce an offering that combines its Web services into one tool that is aimed at making it easier for customers to use and fine-tune the services.

• Amazon launches new cloud services

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced two new pricing plans for its cloud service and has reduced the prices for its existing offerings.

• Oracle kicks off global cloud computing road show

  Oracle is conducting a cloud computing road show that will hit roughly 80 cities around the world, according to its website.

• Amazon Web Services improves support offerings

  Amazon Web Services on Thursday rolled out two premium support tiers and announced a 50 per cent price cut on existing premium plans, heightening competition with rivals like Rackspace and making a clear overture to enterprises that wish to run their operations in the cloud.

• Amazon moves VMware's virtual machines to the cloud

  Amazon Web Services has announced a new feature called VM Import, which allows IT departments to move virtual machine images from their internal data centers to the cloud.

• Wikileaks attacks prove the Cloud is reliable

  It's a strange world. When Amazon Web Services booted Wikileaks off its servers last week, many people (including me) said it raised significant questions about the rush into cloud services.

• Policy, education key to reining in rogue cloud

  It used to be that rogue access points and USB drives kept IT administrators up at night, worrying about employees exporting sensitive corporate data. Now, with good reason, they're worrying about employees using cloud services in ways that could compromise corporate data.

• Amazon's S3 can now store files of up to 5TB

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has increased the maximum size of files that can be stored on its Simple Storage Service (S3) to 5TB from 5GB, Amazon said in a blog post on Thursday.

• Amazon integrates Apple iPhone, iPad and Android with cloud

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making it possible for developers to directly integrate mobile applications for Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, and also apps for Android-based smartphones, with its cloud using two new beta SDKs (software development kits), it said in a blog post on Thursday.

• WikiLeaks.org downed by domain hosting service

  WikiLeaks' main website could not be accessed on Friday through its WikiLeaks.org domain name after a subsidiary of Dynamic Network Services terminated its domain name service.

• Amazon cuts off Wikileaks after U.S. senator's call

  Amazon has stopped hosting the Wikileaks website, according to U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut Independent.

• Aussie cloud start-ups reach ‘Start-Up Challenge’ semi-finals

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has selected five regional semi-finalists and a finalist from Asia-Pacific in its fourth annual Start-Up Challenge.

• Netflix turns from Oracle, IBM to Amazon to save cash

  Netflix moved some of its most crucial IT operations over to Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud in order to save money and gain flexibility compared to using more Oracle software and IBM iron.

• Amazon goes Hollywood with new online movie studio

  Amazon.com is getting into the movie business by opening Amazon Studios, with the goal of using the Internet to put fresh movies on the big screen.