Amazon Web Services is the darling of the cloud. It is the pioneer in developing elastic infrastructures. As Randy Bias of Cloudscaling said to me a few months ago, AWS is like one big computer.

The Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA) platform is a term that encompasses a variety of proposed new standards in the area of Web services interoperability. A fair number of big corporate ...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): A design framework wherein loosely coupled, interoperable services communicate over a network to support scalable and flexible application development.