Amazon Web Services Announces Amazon AppStream

Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services Inc., an Amazon.com company

, announced Amazon AppStream, a new service that provides developers with the ability to stream resource intensive applications, such as 3D games or interactive HD applications, from the cloud. With Amazon AppStream, content is rendered in the cloud, yet the end-user is still able to enjoy a responsive, fluid and high-definition experience on their device. Amazon AppStream allows developers the flexibility to stream their entire application, or only the parts of their application that need additional cloud resources. To learn more about Amazon AppStream, visit http://aws.amazon.com/appstream/. Developers struggle with the hardware constraints of client devices when building end user applications. Mass-market devices, such as