Last night, Amazon's EC2 web-hosting service suffered a technical problem that took down some of web's biggest social media sites. While most people think of Amazon as the world's biggest online ...

If you have been using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a while, you are probably familiar with AWS reserved pricing. The concept is well-liked because of EC2-reserved instances. However, it applies to ...

Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), based in Northern Virginia, went offline early this morning, taking with it a number of popular sites including, news aggregator Reddit and ...

Open source business intelligence application Pentaho is joining the roster of applications available via Amazon.com’s EC2 Web hosting service. Companies will be able to “rent” the new release of ...

Amazon EC2 presents a true virtual computing environment, allowing you to use web service interfaces to requisition machines for use, load them with your custom application environment, manage your ...

Thanks to an update to its Route 53 DNS web service, Amazon now makes it a bit easier to host sites that need high availability in multiple AWS regions. Route 53 has been offering DNS Failover since ...