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Amazon Web Services, the hosted application environment from Amazon.com, announced the availability of the Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) in Europe. Having Amazon EC2 in Europe will mean developers and businesses can build applications and websites on the EC2 platform with less latency, as computational data will not have to travel across the Internet as a part of the workload.

The news that Amazon is now offering a low-cost CDN has likely excited many people. Aptly named CloudFront, this service is stirring up a lot of attention. In "our overview":http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-publishing/amazon-launches-cheap-cdn-for-smb-web-publishers-003549.php of the new service, we outlined the basic steps to use CloudFront. In this post, we thought we would give you a little more detail on those steps to help you get started sooner.

Well known as being the pioneer for cloud computing services, Amazon has released the beta version of its latest initiative -- a content delivery network. Amazon's CloudFront CDN is cheap enough that SMB web publishers are now able to serve their more popular content to their customers quickly and easily.

Salesforce.com doesn't want to get left behind when it comes to website hosting in the cloud. Force.com Sites is a new service offering that enables an organization to host their public websites and applications in the cloud, right alongside Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Never, in a million years would we have expected this move from Salesforce.com. Yeah right.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a provider of Internet data storage and delivery services, is planning to release an unnamed content delivery service that will likely undercut the existing Content Delivery Network (CDN) competition to provide customers with faster and cheaper digital content delivery options.