When it comes to offering cloud computing services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is at the top of the list. Since its launch in July of 2002, AWS has hosted a bevy of products designed to increase the use of cloud computing. In this directory, discover all the options available to the AWS customer, including Amazon's products and any third-party services designed to unlock further opportunities in Amazon's cloud.
Editor's note: We recognize that not every product available on AWS has been listed. We welcome any recommended additions; please contact our editor with your submissions.
Amazon EC2
EC2 provides computing space in the cloud, in which customers can create virtual machines and deploy applications.
Pricing – On-demand instances start at $0.10 per hour on Linux, $0.125 per hour on Windows. Reserved instances start at $325 per year or $.03 per hour.
Amazon SimpleDB
SimpleDB is a web service that delivers basic databases functions in conjunction with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.
Pricing – No charges on 25 Machine Hours, 1 GB of Data Transfer, and 1 GB of Storage per month. See here for prices thereafter.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
S3 is an online storage service that allows for unlimited space for your data in the cloud.
Pricing – Pay for what you use. Specific pricing available here.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
SQS is a hosted message queue service that supports message delivery across Web applications hosted on Amazon Web Services.
Pricing – $0.01 per 10,000 Amazon SQS Requests. See here for data transfer costs.
Amazon Elastic MapReduce
Elastic MapReduce uses the Hadoop framework, along with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, to process large amounts of data in the cloud.
Pricing – Starts at $0.015 per hour, plus additional EC2 charges.
Alfresco 3.2 Community Edition
Alfresco 3.2 Community Edition is an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system that allows users to build cloud-ready content applications.
Pricing – Alfresco 3.2 Community Edition is free for download.
CA Spectrum Automation Manager
The Spectrum Automation Manager is a server provisioning and automation tool that analyzes performance and applies the appropriate, policy-based actions.
Pricing – Spectrum Automation Manager starts at $150,000; no additional fee for CA EC2 support.
CA Service Desk Manager
The Service Desk Manager is IT service support software that offers comprehensive reporting tools and interactive online support for your business environment.
Pricing – Based on the number of concurrent analysts; the list price for 25 concurrent analysts is $140,000. No additional fee for CA EC2 support.
CA CMDB
The CMDB is data repository software, packaged with Service Desk Manager, that stores and manages your IT-related data.
Pricing – Included with Service Desk Manager; $110,000 to be licensed stand-alone.
CA Wily Introscope
The Wily Introscope is application management software designed to diagnose performance problems in both Java and .NET Web applications.
Pricing – Wily Introscope is part of the CA Wily APM solution; starts at $9,600. No additional fee for CA EC2 support.
CA Insight Database Performance Manager (DPM)
The Insight DPM is performance management software that allows you to monitor and diagnose issues and diagnostics over multiple databases.
Pricing – Insight DPM starts at $2,620. No additional fee for CA EC2 support.
Cast Iron Cloud
The Cast Iron Cloud provides preconfigured connectivity for hundreds of applications and templates to accelerate data migration and application integration to Amazon EC2.
Pricing – Exact subscription pricing available here.
Citrix C3 Lab
The Citrix C3 Lab lets users to test the deployment and compatibility of their Citrix applications in an environment that utilizes Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 and Citrix C3.
Pricing – No additional cost for running Citrix C3 Lab instances in EC2.
IBM DB2
IBM DB2 allows for database and Data as a Service (DaaS) applications to be built and deployed in an Amazon EC2 environment.
Pricing – No charge for download/deployment; $2,995 for yearly subscription. EC2 usage charges apply.
IBM WebSphere Application Server
The IBM WebSphere Application Server works with numerous Web servers, including Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), to provide a foundation for building and managing Service Oriented Architecture applications.
Pricing – Developers Version starts at $868. EC2 usage charges apply.
IBM Informix Dynamic Server
The Informix Dynamic Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) designed for AWS users to development and prototype their applications on Amazon EC2.
Pricing – Enterprise Edition starts at $2,300. EC2 usage charges apply.
IBM Lotus Forms Turbo
IBM Lotus Forms Turbo assists users not familiar with IT in developing Web-based eForms on Amazon AWS.
Pricing – 20 authorized user licenses start at $2,000. Development version is EC2 usage charges only. Production-ready version is pay as you go.
IBM Lotus Web Content Management
IBM Lotus Web Content Management is content management software designed to assist with the development of Web sites and the use of Web tools.
Pricing – Standard Edition starts at $495. Development version is EC2 usage charges only. Production-ready version is pay as you go.
Informatica PowerCenter Cloud Edition
The Informatica PowerCenter Cloud Edition is a cloud data integration infrastructure that organizes and processes your cloud-based data in a single environment.
Pricing – $24.95 per hour on EC2, with perpetual pricing models also available.
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform integrates numerous other open source Java technologies into a single environment designed to assist in the production of Java applications.
Pricing – Starting at $119/month per customer on EC@, plus $1.21 per hour for every deployed server. Additional bandwidth and storage fees also apply.
MySQL Enterprise
MySQL Enterprise offers the MySQL Enterprise Server and MySQL Professional Services to host, develop and deploy Web-scale database applications on Amazon EC2.
Pricing – Ranging from $599 to $4,999 per server per year.
Oracle Database 11g
The tools packaged with Oracle Database 11g, in conjunction with Oracle Enterprise Linux, can be leveraged together to store and make use of Oracle databases stored in the cloud.
Pricing – Enterprise Edition options start at $5,000 per processor or $100 per named user. No additional license fees on EC2.
OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris is an open source operating system that features tools such as DTrace, which dynamically traces complete software stacks, and ZFS, an 128-bit filesystem.
Pricing – EC2 usage charges only.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an operating system, targeted towards mainframes, that supports 3000+ certified independent software vendor (ISV) applications.
Pricing – Starting price of $19/month per customer on EC2, plus $0.21 per hour for every deployed server. Additional bandwidth and storage fees apply.
Please contact our editor, Jo Maitland, with any submissions to this directory.
