Amazon Introduces a Dash Button for Cloud Services Because Why Not?

Grazed from Fortune. Author: Barb Darrow.

This is one we should have seen coming: Last week, Amazon Web Services announced a version of the Dash button specifically to enable software developers to trigger cloud computing services. Some background: Last year AWS parent company Amazon started offering programmed Dash buttons that consumers can stick around the house, near supplies they need to buy often.

If they see that they’re running low on paper towels, for example, they hit the Wi-Fi-connected button, and the order is conveyed to the great Amazon store in the sky and slated for delivery. Now AWS is applying that same Internet of things facility to its cloud computing services. The $19.95 AWS Dash button targets software developers who may want to use it to connect to AWS Internet of things services, announced last year…

So instead of going to the AWS console to wonder among all the options, a developer can do things with AWS Lambda, which enables server-less computing applications, DynamoDB database service, Simple Notification Services (SNS), and other goodies without having to write code although the button does require configuration, according to the AWS web page announcing the new button…

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