The price war in cloud computing services eased in Q1, which could provide a lift to Amazon Web Services and Rackspace Hosting (RAX), says RBC Capital in a report. AWS, the cloud unit of e-commerce giant Amazon.com (AMZN), is by far the biggest provider of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), in which companies rent computers and data storage via the Internet cloud. Other IaaS providers include Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOGL). “Q1 2015 pricing
Twitch, Amazon’s (AMZN) live video game streaming site, expired all user passwords, saying some may have been compromised. In a Twitch blog post Monday, the streaming site said there “may have been unauthorized access to some Twitch user account information.” So it’s expired passwords and disconnected accounts from Twitter (TWTR) and Google (GOOGL) YouTube. Amazon paid $970 million last year to acquire Twitch, with the steep price a sign of the
The Federal Aviation Administration late Thursday gave e-commerce leader Amazon.com (AMZN) approval to test its delivery drones in the U.S. Amazon has been seeking permission to test its unmanned aerial vehicles in U.S. airspace since it announced its Amazon Prime Air initiative in December 2013. The news came the same day Amazon announced that it has expanded its one-hour ground delivery service, known as Prime Now, to its Amazon Prime