It appears Amazon’s suite of web services could be growing.
According to some recent domain buys, Amazon Web Services (AWS) may be offering functionality or services to developers for microsites, beyond hosting.
The company hasn’t made any official announcement as of yet, but Amazon’s legal department registered the domains AWSmicrosite.com and AWSmicrosites.com on November 29, as shown in the picture above.
Microsites are usually no more than a few pages and used to promote an event.
It looks like Amazon’s cloud services will be adding more functionality, this time in the way of a caching service for Amazon’s scalable cloud.
The company has registered a slew of domain names this week, including two mentioned in a post yesterday that tipped off the cloud caching service.
Here’s a look at the company’s latest domain name registrations, which also include more names for it’s newly introduced Kindle Cloud Reader spotted by TechCrunch.
The domains were all registered on August 8 by Amazon’s legal department through its registrar-of-choice MarkMonitor.
http://whois.domaintools.com/amazon-elastic-cache.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/amazonaws-elastic-cache.net
http://whois.domaintools.com/amazonawselasticache.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/amazonawselasticache.net
http://whois.domaintools.com/amazoncloudreader.org
http://whois.domaintools.com/amazonelasticache.biz
http://whois.domaintools.com/amazonelasticache.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/amazonelasticache.info
http://whois.domaintools.com/amazonelasticache.net
http://whois.domaintools.com/amazonkindlecloudreader.org
http://whois.domaintools.com/aws-elastic-cache.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/aws-elastic-cache.net
http://whois.domaintools.com/awselasticache.biz
http://whois.domaintools.com/awselasticache.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/awselasticache.info
http://whois.domaintools.com/awselasticache.net