Amazon today announced that it is dropping the prices of dedicated instances on its EC2 cloud computing platform by up to 80%. Dedicated per region fees, which are charged on top of the regular EC2 ...

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Amazon today announced a new round of price cuts for a number of services on its cloud platform, including its S3 storage service, EC2 cloud computing platform, ElastiCache, Elastic MapReduce and RDS ...

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’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) hosted infrastructure service for developers will expand its choice of operating systems and databases to include https://www ...

One of the more useful features found in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) dashboard is the State Manager. The State Manager allows you to specify various actions that should be performed against ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances, dedicated Mac mini computers attached through Thunderbolt to the AWS Nitro System, its computing ...

Amazon has brought a fleet of major PeopleSoft and JD Edward applications to its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service, following a promise in September to do so. The new services are certified by ...

Forgotten resources may continue to incur costs long after they've outlived their usefulness. Here's how to keep that from happening. Although I don't run any production workloads within the Amazon ...