AWS Summit: Amazon Goes Mobile

Amazon launched the previously mentioned Cognito, a cloud service that provides "simple user identity" and data synchronization that enables developers to create apps that can authenticate users through public login providers. It also keeps app data, including user preferences and game state, synced between devices.

Amazon introduced updates to SNS to allow developers to send notifications to Apple iOS, Google Android and Kindle Fire devices.

Amazon also unveiled Zocalo, a fully managed, secure enterprise storage and sharing service that comes with "strong administrative controls" and feedback capabilities intended to improve user productivity. Zocalo enables customers to store, share and gather feedback on documents, spreadsheets, presentations, webpages, images, PDFs and text files from the device of their choice.

Datapipe expanded its Managed Cloud for Amazon Web Services offering, particularly in three key areas—security, hybrid connectivity and operational data. The company added tools that are meant to further protect customers as they expand and accelerate AWS services adoption. It also added an AWS DirectConnect option for its customers, as well as new assessment capabilities that identify KPIs and actions plans to quickly optimize the cost use and governance of the AWS environment.

Not necessarily specifically Summit news, but Cloudian announced a partnership with AWS to expand the utility of hybrid cloud storage by using flexible tiering to Amazon S3 and Glacier. According to Cloudian, the partnership enables it to provide a full-featured, on-premise, Amazon S3-compliant cloud using its HyperStore software.