The inherent tension in collecting data is that it allows companies to tailor advertisements to what consumers want, but it can be abused when data is transferred, sold or stolen, explained Kevin ...

The database industry has undergone a quiet revolution over the past decade. Traditional databases required administrators to provision fixed capacity, including both compute and storage resources.

After three and a half years in operation, Amazon Web Services’ RDS is finally generally available, and users can also get a service-level agreement if they choose to run the database in multiple ...

Amazon is in the midst of $87 billion of data center development in Virginia. The company's data centers in the state can consume about half the power of New York City. It's the largest player in a ...

Amazon Web Services has added a new high-availability feature called Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) to its cloud-based Relational Database Service (RDS), the company said on Tuesday. The addition ...

Amazon has confirmed that employee data was compromised after a “security event” at a third-party vendor. In a statement given to TechCrunch on Monday, Amazon spokesperson Adam Montgomery confirmed ...