Amazon has invested in motor cloud computing Yard

Enterprise software engine Yard said Monday it has closed 15 million U.S. USA Series B round of financing new enterprises and Associates Amazon.com. His earlier investor Benchmark Capital also participated in the round.

Engine Yard, 2 – year old company with headquarters in San Francisco, is responsible for the provision and operation for developers working on Web development environment for Ruby Rails, open-source structure. It helps application developers to work so-called clouds by computer or through a third party, data centers. Despite the investment of Amazonas, automobile plant is not a retail Internet services provided at present. It is planned in the future, however.

Engine Yard, who threw about $ 3.5 million in January, he said, money for research and development of its next cloud computing platform for other projects. As part of the funding announcement, Peter Sonsini, a partner at NEA, occurs Engine Yard’s Board of Directors.

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