Amazon acquires Cloud9

Amazon has acquired Cloud9 to bolster development offerings on AWS.

The two companies announced the deal on Thursday, with Cloud9 CEO Ruben Daniels pledging to continue to develop the company's independent cloud developer tools while working under AWS.

"It's still business as usual – we'll continue to work with our Ace Open Source community and to provide our innovative services to you and our hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide," Daniels wrote.

"Over time, we'll work with AWS to do even more on your behalf."

Amazon did not issue a statement, but we assume they are... very happy about the acquisition. ®