Developers now can use Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) to run Windows Server and SQL Server and allow customers access to Windows-based computing resources on the nearly 3-year-old AWS cloud ...

Are you curious as to what the AWS EC2 server is all about and what it can do for you? Let's say that your current computer setup is subpar or perhaps you need a second unit for remote production ...

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 ...

Amazon has launched an initiative for Microsoft customers to bring their Windows Server licenses to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform.

At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS today announced the launch of Arm-based servers for its EC2 cloud computing service. These aren’t run-of-the-mill Arm chips, though. AWS took the ...

AWS says that these instances can be up to 45 percent cheaper to run than equivalent X86 instances on EC2, but it is not clear what AWS is comparing there. The big point is: Now we get to see what the ...

Amazon EC2 allows server capacities to be reserved in advance Customers of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud can now reserve additional requirements in advance. There is no guarantee for provisioning.

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.

This AWS screenshot shows an initial step in setting up ‘managed instances’ — servers or VMs that can now be administered through EC2’s ‘run command’.