Most developers can’t afford the time or investment to test their app on every Android device available. It will be available July 13, sporting a free tier that comes with 250 device minutes, after which the charge is $0.17 per device minute. Alternatively, you can opt for a flat $250 monthly fee per device if your testing scales up to that level.
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That willingness to cannibalize its ecosystem is mirrored in the other new addition that Amazonannounced for its public cloud this morning: a service called API Gateway that provides the ability to control how apps, mobile or otherwise, interact with the rest of the world. “AWS Device Farm automatically identifies and groups identical errors across multiple devices, allowing developers to quickly and efficiently analyze data from potentially hundreds of tests”. Both services were teased during the AWS re:Invent conference last fall, but have not been made widely available for use until today. It hosts code repositories and can take care of the hosting, scaling or maintaining of source code control infrastructure. “CodeCommit runs in the AWS Cloud and is a great fit for situations where your development team works from multiple locations or when you need to collaborate with vendors or other partners”. If it’s not going smoothly, developers will simply find an alternative that is. “It allows you to model, visualize and automate the steps that are required to release your software”. Now, with Amazon API Gateway, customers have a pay-as-you-go service that takes care of all of that undifferentiated operational and security heavy lifting involved in creating and maintaining APIs, authorizing access to them, verifying API calls, monitoring API performance, and ensuring back-end services can handle heavy API traffic.
AWS announced its second annual City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge, a global program that recognizes local and regional governments and developers that are benefiting their citizens through the AWS Cloud, last week. Those services range from virtual machine (VM) images and other software to servers and databases.
Performant – Allow you to build services that are globally accessible (via CloudFront) for low latency access, with data transfer to the backend over the AWS network.
“[M]ore and more companies look to go “all-in” on AWS and treat AWS as a priority platform for customers to run their software, and we strive to provide the resources needed to support the growth of their SaaS-based businesses on the AWS platform”, Miller said, adding that the analyst firm IDC predicted that by 2018 20.5 percent of all software delivery will be SaaS.
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David Ramel is an editor and writer for 1105 Media.
