But instead of going on the offensive, AWS’ posture is to play nice with the services we already use.
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According to Pacific Crest analyst Brent Bracelin, however, AWS’ profit margins may fall thanks to the business investing in moving into new regions. Since its launch locally in May 2015, over 1,000 Korean students are participating in AWS-related classes and non-profit e-learning programs, such as “Like a Lion”. Another new AWS region will be activated in the U.S.in OH, bring to four the total AWS regions to be opened in 2016 – a record expansion.
“This should elevate capital expenditures, which could pressure operating margins… This average revenue per region has more than doubled in the past two years”.
The company additionally touts an easier setup process as the product becomes generally available.
“We built Amazon WorkMail to address these requests and to help businesses achieve agility and cost savings by letting AWS manage the non-differentiated heavy lifting involved in corporate email and calendaring”.
With competition heating up in the public cloud sector, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has started the new year with a price reduction on some of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service offerings in several regions, including Australia.
“I am happy to be able to announce that we are making yet another EC2 price reduction!” said AWS evangelist Jeff Barr on the division’s blog. WorkMail integrates with the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol including Android, Blackberry 10, Fire Phone (does anyone actually use one?), iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, and Windows Phone.
Amazon’s WorkMail costs $4 per user, per month, which includes 50 GB of mailbox storage per user.
WorkMail supports OS X, including Apple Mail and Outlook.
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“We are reducing the On-Demand and Reserved instance, and Dedicated host prices for C4 and M4 instances running Linux by 5 percent in the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions”. (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s WorkMail a test before they purchase a subscription, they can sign up to 25 users for a 30-day trial.
