Amazon offers AppStream developers to stream applications from the cloud

Amazon held a re: Invent conference in Las Vegas for developers yesterday, and during it announced some interesting solutions. One of them is the Amazon AppStream platform, which allows developers to simply stream the application from the cloud to mobile devices (Amazon focuses it on mobile developers, but, in fact, nothing prohibits the use of the platform and everyone else).



Now the service is in the stage of limited testing, and you can subscribe to it here .
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Amazon says that AppStream will allow developers to create "high-quality, beautiful applications that run on a variety of devices that instantly start and have access to all the computing and disk resources of AWS Cloud."

Using Amazon STX, a new protocol developed by the company's engineers, developers can stream any content - from HD video to complex 3D games, by shifting all complex calculations to the cloud. Using Amazon g2 instances in EC2, developers can now simply render all graphics in the cloud.

On the other hand, AppStream applications can use all device sensors, sending data for processing to Amazon.

Andy Jesse, head of Amazon Web Services, says:

Applications are no longer limited to the computational, graphical, or spatial capabilities of devices.

Amazon AppStream now has an application streaming SDK from Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 on FireOS, Android, iOS and Microsoft Windows. Mac OS X SDK is scheduled for 2014.