Madan Sheina, Lead Analyst, Software – Information Management

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a series of updates to its expanding database services portfolio at its AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, reinforcing its ability to run multiple database workloads with elastic scale in the AWS cloud. While AWS offers a comprehensive menu of best-of-breed cloud services, Ovum would like to see a more integrated platform approach. AWS has disrupted the price barriers for large-scale data processing in the cloud. But cost will become less of a differentiator as customers look for richer and more orchestrated database services to fully support their enterprise data-processing needs.

Momentum and growth continue for AWS database services

Since the launch of Amazon S3 in 2006 as a simple online storage service for software developers, AWS has broadened and deepened its cloud services to cover virtually any type of workload in the cloud – compute, networking, storage …