Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Amazon Web Services - Amazon's cloud computing platform has announced plans to expand into the Asia-Pacific region in the first half of 2010 with the introduction of regional infrastructure to support its cloud computing services.
Amazon says software developers and businesses will be able to access its infrastructure services from multiple zones, starting with one in Singapore in the first half of 2010, to be followed by others around Asia over the second half of 2010.
Services available at launch will include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and Amazon CloudFront. Prices will be announced at the time of launch.
Amazon has also just announced a software development kit for .NET and support for private content in Amazon CloudFront, its content delivery service. The.NET SDK, according to Amazon, "makes it even easier for Windows developers to build .NET applications that tap into the cost-effective, scalable, and reliable Amazon Web Services cloud."
Support for private content in Amazon CloudFront enables users to restrict access to content. "For example if your website sells digital goods, you might use Amazon CloudFront's private content feature to help ensure your merchandise is only downloaded by paying customers. Or, if your company delivers training materials to employees, you might use this feature to help ensure that proprietary information isn't accessed outside of your organisation," Amazon says.
Amazon Web Services is offered on a pay-as-you-use basis and, according to Amazon, enables users to take advantage of the global computing infrastructure that is the backbone of its $US15 billion retail business and transactional enterprise: a scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure [that] has been honed for over 13 years."
Amazon claims that "Using Amazon Web Services, an e-commerce web site can weather unforeseen demand with ease; a pharmaceutical company can 'rent' computing power to execute large-scale simulations; a media company can serve unlimited videos, music, and more; and an enterprise can deploy bandwidth-consuming services and training to its mobile workforce."
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