Corporate America is finally ready to buy cloud-computing services, says Pacific Crest Securities, which sees upside for Amazon.com (AMZN)’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others. The biggest users of cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) — basically delivering and providing computing services via the Internet cloud — have been small and midsize businesses. Many large companies and other enterprises still process their most important workloads
Amazon.com’s (AMZN) cloud services unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), said Thursday that it has rolled out several new services designed to make it easier for developers to build and scale mobile apps on the AWS cloud. The new services include Amazon Cognito, which provides user identity and data synchronization to help developers create apps that authenticate users through popular public login providers. The developers can then keep app data such
The battle to control the infrastructure for cloud computing is coming down to market leader Amazon.com (AMZN) and competitors Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) a report by Bernstein Research says. Amazon is top dog in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market, with estimated 2013 revenue of more than $3 billion from its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business, Bernstein analyst Carlos Kirjner said in a report published Friday. AWS revenue jumped 85% in 2013, he said. In contrast to Amazon’s $3 abillion, Google’s competing Google Compute Engine likely generated $100 million or less in 2013, said Kirjner. And Microsoft probably took in a few hundred million dollars in 2013 IaaS revenue as part of its Azure business, he added. IaaS lets companies and government agencies access computing resources over the Internet on a pay-as-you-go basis. “We believe the number of players who can compete at scale with AWS (i.e., beyond specialized niches) can…