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 said on Wednesday that it plans to offer its cloud computing customers the option of running Microsoft's Windows Server operating system as well as its SQL Server database. Starting sometime ...

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 ...

It's one of Amazon's best-kept secrets. How many computers does it take to keep its Elastic Compute Cloud platform afloat? And now, a researcher with Accenture thinks he has the answer: 445,000.

Concurrent with the release of ArcGIS 10, Esri has made ArcGIS Server 10 available to customers via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). "ArcGIS Server on Amazon EC2 gives customers another option ...

The successful migration from purely private to public and hybrid cloud arrangements has substantially increased the level of confidence IT administrators have in the cloud. And among the top cloud ...

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 ...

Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 are approaching their scheduled end of life in 2023. As such, organizations need to begin considering how they are going to migrate away from Windows Server 2012 and ...

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 standard ...

News.com's Martin Lamonica has written a two page report on Amazon's utility computing initiatives under the title Amazon: Utility computing broker. As many of you know (because of the disclosures I ...