The new AWS Device Farm will let developers test Android and Fire OS apps by accessing a fleet of real smartphones and tablets, via Amazon Web Services.

The GSMA Open Gateway made its debut alongside new offerings from Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp., which have both sharpened their focus on the carrier market in recent years.

One year on from a major datacentre outage that affected the same Amazon Web Services region, the public cloud giant and thousands of its users are hit by service trouble again.