Tableau analytics in cloud with AWS

AWS may also have a second major new product up its sleeve. In cases of massively large amounts of data, Amazon would supply a storage device that customers can send back filled with data – all this at a monthly subscription fee. Both options are available for free evaluation.

“We’re pleased to see Rackspace support AWS customers and achieve membership in the AWS Managed Service Program”, said Terry Wise, Vice President of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, Amazon Web Services, Inc. Amazon’s newly purchased 2lemetry is able to offer device management and monitoring, and Space Needle could be the required data evaluation service. It can really be a heavyweight in the BI market.

The figures come from cloud consumption management specilalist Cloud Cruiser which surveyed IT professionals who attended the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Global Summit held in San Francisco and New York City in April and July.

Analysts had been pondering the possibility of an Amazon deal following a partnership announced this summer with Microsoft’s (MSFT) Azure cloud computing operation.

For many businesses and government agencies in the European Union, data protection laws have slowed cloud adoption and prevented customers from using services that store data outside of the EU.

While neither AWS nor Rackspace would comment on the reports, it seems that most Wall Street investors believe they could well be true.

That much we know from a recent job listing for a database developer, where AWS says: “These are exciting times in our space – we are growing fast, but still at an early stage and working on ambitious new initiatives where an engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact”.

Rackspace (RAX) shares, which rose last week on reports of the upcoming Amazon deal, were also down 0.5% to $25.74. Though existing AWS services such Kinesis data ingestion, EC2 compute, and S3 storage are presently used for IoT data analysis by companies like Ayla, it’s been reported that partnerships with chip enterprises and facilities to support IoT service opportunities will be announced this week at the annual AWS Re:Invent conference.

Avere Systems’ CloudFusion is generally available today and is on the AWS marketplace. The survey found that the majority of respondents indicated that they had built a hybrid cloud using AWS, however, another 30% were willing to compliment their AWS cloud with another public cloud service. It helps solve for the complexity of hosting, configuring, and operating Experience Manager by providing a managed automation platform on AWS, backed by Rackspace support and expertise.

With AWS catering to bigwigs like Adobe, Airbnb, NASA, Dow Jones, Netflix, et al the new service can offer an advantage to those already storing their data on AWS.