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 ...

Technically complex DynamoDB can be seen as a more expansive, technically complex version of AWS's existing non-relational database service, SimpleDB, according to Vogels.

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.

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

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 ...