Information Week's Charles Babcock broke the news this morning in a story detailing the exact cause of the Amazon Web Services' EC2 cloud mishap. Through some good old-fashioned solid reporting, ...

Amazon said Thursday that its Elastic Block Store feature is now available to all of its EC2 Web service customers. The move gives Amazon Web Services a full storage suite delivered as a service. EC2 ...

Open source business intelligence application Pentaho is joining the roster of applications available via Amazon.com’s EC2 Web hosting service. Companies will be able to “rent” the new release of ...

The recently announced Google App Engine allows developers to build and host Python-based web applications for free. While you might think such an tool would be welcomed by the developer community, ...

Amazon Web Services has launched the new "Mac2" instance on EC2 that uses Apple's Arm-based M1 chips on the 2020 Mac mini. Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances are dedicated Mac mini computers attached through ...

Amazon Web Services and Apple have partnered to bring modern cloud-provisioning capabilities to the macOS platform with Tuesday morning's launch of the new mac1.metal ECS instance type. In something ...

For the first decade that Amazon Web Services was in operation, its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) raw compute was available in precisely one flavor: Intel Xeon. But now, AWS is not only putting its own ...

The popularity of Amazon’s cheap, easily scalable hosting is showing its downside right now, with a number of popular websites and services throwing up errors or being down completely. We can confirm ...

When Amazon launched the AWS EC2 cloud computing service back in 2006, per-hour billing was a big deal, but that scheme also meant that you’d pay for a full hour even if you only used an instance for ...