Two members of the team that created Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud have built a new cloud computing start-up called Benguela, which is expected to emerge from stealth mode next week. Two members of the team that created Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud ...

The price drop follows AWS reducing the cost of its CloudFront offering in June and a previous AWS price drop in February that included Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon RDS and Amazon VPC. "If you have existing Reserved Instances ...

EC2 has changed quite a bit in the last five years, so whether you are new to EC2 or an old hand, it’s worth a look at how to launch your own EC2 instances today My article “Linux Amazon EC2 tutorial: How to set up an EC2 instance” shows you how to ...

We all envision the cloud to be an on demand resource where at anytime we can add computing and storage capacity at the drop of the hat. Simply bring on as many virtual servers or as much disk storage as needed, when needed. That’s one of the most ...

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, Babcock has gotten some answers from Amazon Web Services that ...

Amazon’s Web Services operation Thursday launched a persistent storage service for its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) cloud computing service. The new Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) allows users to create storage volumes attached to Amazon EC2 instances ...

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 North Virginia cloud went down for approximately four hours yesterday, due to ‘elevated packet loss’. The issue was first reported on the AWS Service Health Dashboard at 0208 PDT (0908 GMT) on October 15, with the ...

Amazon says its cloud computing unit at a US data centre has largely contained the fallout of a worldwide outage but some services are still reportedly disrupted.

Amazon Web Services outages had knocked many global websites and apps offline, including Signal, Coinbase and Robinhood.

In the week that the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency reported worldwide cloud outages cost at least £45m over five years, the all-encompassing Amazon EC2 Cloud was down on Friday night due to heavy storms in Virginia. From ...