Amazon Web Services has launched a hosted database service called DynamoDB, stepping into competition with platform-as-a-service providers such as Salesforce.com, Oracle and others.

AWS announced new database capabilities for Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB, and introduced Amazon Neptune, a new graph database service.

Amazon Web Services is improving the performance of its DynamoDB database service with Parallel Scan, which gives users faster access to their tables. DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that ...