Amazon on Monday opened up its SimpleDB cloud-based database service to an unlimited beta audience, after a year's private testing. On the AWS blog on Monday, Amazon wrote that it had "learned a ...

Amazon stopped accepting new users for several cloud services, causing confusion among customers, partners and some employees.

In December, Amazon released the beta version of its SimpleDB product. SimpleDB is part of a suite of tools making up the Amazon Web Services, or AWS.

Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source with knowledge of ...