Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, also known as Amazon S3, plans to change its pricing on Nov. 1 in a move that should help it stay ahead of competing cloud storage companies. Amazon S3, and the larger ...

Amazon Web Service is launching a new web service tonight called S3 – which stands for “Simple Storage Service”. It is a storage service backend for developers that offers “a highly scalable, reliable ...

You no doubt heard about the Amazon S3 outage that happened earlier this week. It was reported far and wide by media outlets who normally don’t delve into details of the technology supporting our ...

Can cloud storage scale? You bet. Amazon's Jeff Barr notes this morning that its S3 online storage has blown past one trillion objects. Andrew Nusca is the editor of SmartPlanet and an associate ...

Amazon’s S3 Simple Storage Service has outperformed Microsoft’s Windows Azure Storage and all other major providers in an extensive study testing the feasibility of businesses using cloud services for ...

Each cloud vendor offers an object storage service, and they include Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), Azure’s Blob Store, and Google’s Cloud Storage. Think of object storage systems like a file ...

Technology is awash with buzzwords, and one of the most used recently is cloud computing . It can be thought of as three layers, each built upon the layer below: Software as a Service (SaaS) providers ...

Amazon’s S3 Web service was down Tuesday morning, wreaking havoc on the Internet — and on social media. Amazon Simple Storage Service, or Amazon S3, provides Web hosting, image and file storage and ...