Almost half-a-million Amazon cloud servers run Linux every day. While Amazon has never officially said what it's running as EC2's base operating system, it's generally accepted that it's a customized ...

Amazon began renting CPU time by the hour in 2006. Since then, Amazon’s cloud computing service, known as EC2, rapidly became popular with pharmaceutical corporations, digital design centers, and ...

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 ...

Amazon Web Services has added the ability to use the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)’s powerful “run command” feature with a single log-in to execute commands in multiple locations, including EC2 ...

Cloud services are all the rage today, although some of my fellow Linux Journal staffers may scoff when they hear me say that. Cloud services is a nebulous term that can mean anything from completely ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Joyent, the leading global provider of cloud computing solutions and technologies, today announced a series of third party benchmark results that demonstrate that its ...

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HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ePlus inc. (NASDAQ NGS: PLUS – news) announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Service Delivery designation for Amazon Simple Storage Service ...

Chris Pinkham was walking through a data center that would one day house Amazon's seminal cloud computing service – the Elastic Compute Cloud – when he came face to face with a cage of Google machines ...