{"id":648558,"date":"2013-03-25T00:18:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T04:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=623709"},"modified":"2013-03-25T00:18:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T04:18:03","slug":"amazon-web-services-ramps-up-mobile-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/648558","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Web Services ramps up mobile development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hold the phone! Amazon Web Services is launching a mobile applications initiative. According to a company job post<\/a>, AWS seeks a\u00a0software development engineer for a new iOS\/Android AWS initiative to be based in Palo Alto, Calif.<\/p>\n

\"awslogojpeg\"<\/a>The ideal candidate will have built a \u201ctop 25 app;\u201d and want to build a \u201cbrand new service from the ground floor,\u201d according to the job post.<\/p>\n

It continued:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn this role, you will be responsible for creating and owning world-class production tablet and web client applications across major platforms including iOS and Android . You must be willing to insist on the highest standards for quality, maintainability, and performance. You will ensure that engineering best practices are followed and that software is designed to be responsive, reliable and maintainable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

TechCrunch<\/a><\/em>\u00a0first\u00a0reported the news Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Developers typically access AWS from their PCs but smartphones and tablets are quickly supplanting laptops and PCs as devices of choice for more workers so it would make sense for AWS to turn more attention to those form factors. \u00a0And, the company added Android<\/a> and\u00a0iOS(s\u00a0appl) support<\/a> to the AWS management console so users can keep an eye on their services from their device of choice.<\/p>\n

While this posting talks about client app development rather than SDK, it is also\u00a0possible that AWS will devise its own mobile backend as a service (MbaaS) \u2014 something that GigaOM Pro analyst Janakiram MSV\u00a0posited in a post<\/a>\u00a0(subscription required) a few weeks ago. According to MSV:<\/p>\n

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\u201cAWS has all the required building blocks to expose mobile backend services. Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon RDS already form the backbone of many mobile applications today. The AWS SDK for Android and iOS makes it easy for developers to consume these services.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

General purpose platforms as a service (PaaSes) neglected this mobile segment \u2014 a gap that startups like Kinvey, Parse, Stackmob, and Kii rushed to fill. Now, PaaS players are adding more mobile capabilities \u2014 witness Microsoft\u2019s addition of mobile services to Windows Azure<\/a>\u00a0last summer.<\/p>\n

I will update this story if and when Amazon responds to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

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