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Amazon hints at Web Services Partner Network with domain registrations

Amazon Web Services Partner Network

With competition heating up between companies offering cloud computing services, it appears Amazon Web Services (AWS) may be launching its own partner network some time in the near future, according to a slew of domain registrations that include names like awspartnernetwork.com and amazonawspartnernetwork.com.

Amazon Web Services does have a Solution Providers Program but the Partner Network sounds like an entirely new opportunity for AWS partners.

In total, Amazon’s legal department registered nearly two dozen new domain names on March 12, that hint at the service.

Here’s a look at the full list of domains.

amazon-partner-network.com
amazonaws-partner-network.com
amazonawsadvancedtechnologypartner.com
amazonawsapn.com
amazonawsconsultingpartner.com
amazonawsmsp.com
amazonawspartner.com
amazonawspartnernetwork.com
amazonmsp.com
amazonpartnernetwork.com
aws-advancedtechnology-partner.com
aws-consulting-partner.com
aws-managed-service-provider.com
aws-partner-network.com
aws-partner.com
awsadvancedtechnologypartner.com
awsapn.com
awsconsultingpartner.com
awsmanagedserviceprovider.com
awsmsp.com
awspartner.com
awspartnernetwork.com

As of today, no official word yet by Amazon on its AWS Partner Network.

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Several Amazon Web Services Certified Samurai domain names registered

AWS Certified Samurai

According to several recent domain registrations, it looks like Amazon Web Services (AWS) has something in the works.

On December 22, Amazon’s legal department registered new AWS domains with ‘Certified Samurai’ in the name.

The domain registrations include:

aws-certified-samurai.com
aws-samurai.com
awscertifiedsamurai.com
awssamurai.com

Amazon hasn’t made any official announcement about the service or product as of yet.

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Amazon Web Services could offer microsites according to domain buys

AWSMicrosites.com WHOIS record

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.

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New service for Amazon’s cloud about to be directly exposed: DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB

It looks like Amazon Web Services (AWS) will make available a feature called “DynamoDB”, a service that has already been powering parts of AWS for years, but has never been directly exposed.

While the company hasn’t made any official announcement, the company registered the domain names Amazondynamodb.com and AWSdynamodb.com on October 5, that hint the service will be offered as an AWS product.

It’s the same pattern that followed the registration of its ElastiCache domains, which I reported about on August 10.  Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels introduced ElastiCache nearly two weeks later on August 22.

So, it’s probably safe to say, you’ll be seeing Amazon DynamoDB alongside Amazon SimpleDB on the AWS products and services page fairly soon.

The domains were both registered by Amazon’s legal department through MarkMonitor.

Here’s a look at the Whois record for AmazonDynamoDB.com.

Registrant:
        Hostmaster, Amazon Legal Dept.
        Amazon Technologies, Inc.
        P.O. Box 8102
         Reno NV 89507
        US

    Domain Name: amazondynamodb.com

        Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
        Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com

    Administrative Contact:
        Hostmaster, Amazon Legal Dept.
        Amazon Technologies, Inc.
        P.O. Box 8102
         Reno NV 89507
        US
        
    Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
        Hostmaster, Amazon Legal Dept.
        Amazon Technologies, Inc.
        P.O. Box 8102
         Reno NV 89507
        US

    Created on…………..: 2011-10-05.
    Expires on…………..: 2012-10-05.
    Record last updated on..: 2011-10-05.

What is Dynamo?

According to Werner Vogels on All Things Distributed back in 2007: “Dynamo is internal technology developed at Amazon to address the need for an incrementally scalable, highly-available key-value storage system.”

[Update 1 on January 18, 2012:  Amazon has launched DynamoDB.  As Barb Darrow writes for GigaOM, “Amazon Web Services is adding a home-grown NoSQL database to its ever-expanding roster of cloud computing offerings. DynamoDB is what Amazon CTO Werner Vogels called a “fully managed” NoSQL implementation the company built and tested over the years.”]

(Photo of opening slide from 2008 Keynote at MySQL Conference by Werner Vogels via All Things Distributed)