S&P 500
7,405.60
+0.06%
Dow Jones
51,819.50
-0.07%
Nasdaq 100
29,598.90
+0.23%
Russell 2000
2,985.98
+0.13%
FTSE 100
10,453.00
-0.08%
Nikkei 225
70,306.70
+1.42%

Investing

Amazon Launches Cloud-based Database (AMZN)

Photo of Paul Ausick
By Paul Ausick Published

The new DynamoDB from Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is not the first cloud-based database offering from the company, but it is distinctive. The new database is a highly scalable NoSQL database that is built on the company’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform and addresses what Amazon sees as the need for a database program to handle web-based social game-playing and other web applications.

Amazon’s CTO writes on his blog:

With Amazon DynamoDB, developers scaling cloud-based applications can start small with just the capacity they need and then increase the request capacity of a given table as their app grows in popularity. Their tables can also grow without limits as their users store increasing amounts of data. … Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer.

Amazon’s press release is here.

Follow 24/7 Wall St. on Google
Photo of Paul Ausick
About the Author Paul Ausick →

Paul Ausick has been writing for 247Wallst.com for more than a decade. He has written extensively on investing in the energy, defense, and technology sectors. In a previous life, he wrote technical documentation and managed a marketing communications group in Silicon Valley.

He has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Chicago and now lives in Montana, where he fishes for trout in the summer and stays inside during the winter.

Continue Reading

Douglas A. McIntyre |

Amazon Could Reach $100 Billion Revenue in 2014

There were 20 U.S. companies with $100 billion of sales or more in 2012. Amazon.com will join that short and…

Amazon’s $50 Billion Chip Secret: Why It Could Become Nvidia’s Biggest AI Rival
Rich Duprey |

Amazon’s $50 Billion Chip Secret: Why It Could Become Nvidia’s Biggest AI Rival

Artificial intelligence has turned semiconductor stocks into the market’s biggest winners. Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction), Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO), Advanced…

The 2 Big Winners as Enterprise Technology Sees Massive Shift
Lee Jackson |

The 2 Big Winners as Enterprise Technology Sees Massive Shift

The bottom line is large enterprise is migrating to the cloud, and two companies appear to be dominating the activity.…

Investors Are Sick of Amazon
Douglas A. McIntyre |

Investors Are Sick of Amazon

Despite blowout quarterly results, Amazon stock has underperformed this year. Investors have two primary worries about the company.

4 Must-Own Technology Leaders to Buy When the Massive Selling Stops
Lee Jackson |

4 Must-Own Technology Leaders to Buy When the Massive Selling Stops

Investors who wisely moved to larger cash positions will now have perhaps some of the best opportunities in years to…

Forget AMD: Amazon Declares War on Nvidia by Selling Its Own AI Chips
Rich Duprey |

Forget AMD: Amazon Declares War on Nvidia by Selling Its Own AI Chips

The artificial intelligence boom has triggered one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in technology history. The largest cloud providers are…

Paul Ausick |

Why Amazon Is Tech’s Biggest Polluter

Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is taking a few lumps today in a new report from Greenpeace that claims that…

Why Amazon Is Now Giving AWS Users Access to Its Satellites
Chris Lange |

Why Amazon Is Now Giving AWS Users Access to Its Satellites

Satellites are being used by more and more businesses, universities, and governments for a variety of applications, and Amazon is…

3 Reasons Amazon Should Pay a Dividend This Year
Rich Duprey |

3 Reasons Amazon Should Pay a Dividend This Year

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) is unique among trillion-dollar stocks on the S&P 500. It is the only one…

Top Gaining Stocks

Axon Enterprise
AXON • Vol: 1,135,209
CDW
CDW • Vol: 2,437,574
GE HealthCare
GEHC • Vol: 8,107,469
IBM
IBM • Vol: 16,103,112
Charter Communications
CHTR • Vol: 2,972,111

Top Losing Stocks

Micron Technology
MU • Vol: 60,251,824
ON Semiconductor
ON • Vol: 15,490,005
Enphase Energy
ENPH • Vol: 6,293,491
Lam Research
LRCX • Vol: 16,065,247
Microchip Technology
MCHP • Vol: 18,305,346