80% growth in AWS sales drive Amazon's 2Q profits

80% growth in AWS sales drive Amazon's 2Q profits:

 Amazon.com, Inc. found that the cloud is indeed a ray of hope, as Amazon Web Services sales increased 80 percent and pushed the company to profitability.
In announcing its results for the second quarter, Amazon said it had a net profit of $ 92 million profit in the second quarter of 2015. The contrast $ 126 million loss of business in the second quarter of 2014.
"The teams have worked hard to Amazon customers," said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. "We disclose Amazon Affairs, Amazon opened Mexico, launched the first day, our ninth Premier deployed Now the city our record Black Friday broke with the first First Day, received 11 Emmy nominations for Transparent, initiated six new controllers children Echo has general availability, skills and voice service team introduces Alexa Alexa open FBA small and light, have continued to double our fastest growing geography - India launched 350 major features and AWS services so far this year ( before the rate last year) he presented AWS educate, and has agreements for new solar and wind farms - enough to overcome our 2016 renewable energy target by 40 percent. "
As for the bottom line, Amazon Web Services was clearly the brightest spot in a long queue. AWS generated sales of $ 1.8 billion in sales in the second quarter of 2015. This represents an increase of 80 percent from $ 1 billion in sales it generated a year ago.
Combined sales of the company rose 20 percent and reached $ 23.18 billion. Which it is compared with $ 19.34 billion in the second quarter of 2014.
Looking ahead, the company said it expects third quarter 2015 net sales will be between $ 23.3 billion to $ 25.5, an increase of between 13 and 24 percent compared to the same period last year.
Amazon help achieve these revenue figures was a very aggressive strategy to implement new products and services this year rated IOC. This includes e-commerce site, streaming video, cloud computing, e-book readers, tablets and phones.
Amazon deployed 350 functions and services of Amazon Web Services alone, the article notes, as well as a training center for organizations using the cloud service called AWS educate.

Amazon Launches AWS Device Farm, Lets Developers Test Android And Fire OS Apps On Real Devices

Amazon Launches AWS Device Farm, Lets Developers Test Android And Fire OS Apps On Real Devices:

From next week, the developers of the Android operating system and fire may use a new service based on Amazon's cloud to test their physical applications for smartphones and tablets. Farm AWS devices allow developers to upload their applications and test them on "most commonly used mobile devices through an ever-expanding fleet includes the latest combination of device / OS." Amazon says. Unfortunately, the company did not say how many devices are really talking.If that concept sounds familiar, it may be due to a number of other companies already offer similar services. Google announced Cloud Test Lab in its developer conference a few weeks ago IO /, for example (even if it does launch later this summer) and Xamarin already offers its testing service cloud (with support for approximately 1,000 aircraft 1600 ) since 2013.The new Farm device works much like all its competitors. Developers upload your application, select the devices you want to try it in and the service will be repeated automatically through all the screens and buttons. Once this is done, the service generates a report and the developer can go ahead start debugging the application. If you need more control over the device Granja test also it allows writing your own tests with the help of frames as Appium popular tests (which also carries Xamarin compatible), Calabash and Espresso."For developers of mobile applications, which offer high-quality applications in all different combinations of devices and OS is a great effort. - It is time, complicated and expensive, and as new devices are entering the market, developers are looking for an easier to build and test a way through them, "said Marco Argenti, vice president of Amazon AWS in a statement." AWS Farm device offers developers a simple and cost effective way to test the actual experience user applications across multiple types of devices to scale. And when used with other mobile services like Amazon AWS Cognito, Lambda AWS, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), developers have a platform complete that makes it even easier to build, deploy, test and repeat large mobile applications. "Like other AWS services, camera Farm offer a free level. In this case, we obtain 250 minutes of free devices. After that, you will pay $ 0.17 per minute the machine or can opt for a lump sum payment of $ 250 per unit per month. Xamarin pricing plans, in comparison, they are starting at $ 1,000 for 200 hours of devices monthly unlimited number of devices that can be tested. The company also offers 60 minutes of access to the service for all subscribers Xamarin. Google has not disclosed the price of their service.

Alert Logic Partners, SIs Join AWS Marketplace Consulting Partner Program

Alert Logic Partners, SIs Join AWS Marketplace Consulting Partner Program:

Alert Logic provider security-as-a-Service announced that it has joined the partner program board AWS Amazon Web Services market. The participation of logic Alert in the program will allow customers of AWS for marketing the system integrator business and channel partners are approved for software and services at the point of sale, which helps to work with partners suitable for your business needs.

Alert various logical systems integrators and distribution partners have been selected to participate in the program market consulting partners AWS, including second Watch, Cloudreach, channeling data DualSpark, Logicworks, Nimbus and Smart421. Each partner will be included in the AWS Marketplace, according to the announcement.

"Our goal is to do everything possible to highlight and promote our strong distribution partners that our security solutions and 24x7 performance for clients ranging AWS," said Brian Forbes, vice president, partner and field marketing in Latin Alert Logic, in a statement. "This program will go a long way to connect our customers with experience AWS resources."

In addition, Alert Logic Consulting partners will have access to resources and specific training so they can better enable AWS customers deploy and use applications in the AWS cloud, according to the announcement.

"The security of the Web work load is a top purchase reason, we see market customers AWS to handle the workload of application level," said Dave McCann, Vice President of Market AWS, Amazon Web Services, Inc. " As more workloads are enabled by AWS products market, our goal is to give our customers the best possible experience is enhanced by the partners with Alert Logic visible at the time of purchase. "