Amazon rolls out new services for cloud

Big Data: Amazon is launching a slew of services and products to help companies analyse their data.

Amazon.com Inc's cloud business, Amazon Web Services, launched a service to help companies analyse their data, as well as a suitcase-like product that will let them ship large amounts of data for storage on the cloud. 

Cloud computing is the fastest growing business for Amazon, which until recently was mostly known as an online marketplace, and the new services will help the company capitalise on rising demand to store and manage large amounts of information.