Recent research indicates that Amazon's EC2 cloud is made up of almost half-a-million servers--each of them running a variation of Red Hat Linux for their base operating system.

Since 2006, Amazon has reduced the price for its server time 19 times, and operates with razor thin margins. Although Amazon has never revealed how many servers they have in operation, a recent ...

Amazon’s EC2 servers started coming back online today, struggling in the process, as an outage of several hours for numerous popular websites finally comes to an end. Disruptions ranged from ...

Hot on the heels of the VMware deal, Amazon launched Server Migration Service (SMS), a tool that migrates virtual machines running in VMware environment to the cloud. This new service enables ...

This makes spinning up your own personal cloud servers fast and easy—although not necessarily economical (see the Amazon EC2 Economics sidebar for a quick cost breakdown of EC2).

With Amazon EC2, developers set up or choose an Amazon Machine Image, which contains the software needed to boot up an instance of a server.

Test results show that Joyent SmartMachines, Windows Virtual Machines and Linux Virtual Machines outperform nearly all of Amazon EC2 servers. Noteworthy measurements show that Joyent SmartMachine ...

“ePlus is proud to receive the AWS Service Delivery designation for Amazon EC2 on Windows Server,” said Justin Mescher, vice president of cloud and data center solutions at ePlus.

Amazon EC2 allows users to rent computing hardware resources and build scalable system architectures. Presenter Andrew Stauffer, ArcGIS Server development technical lead, will explain how to use a ...