Amazon today launched a new type of instance for its EC2 cloud computing platform that is specifically designed for applications that require 3D graphics capabilities. When you think about cloud ...

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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 ...

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 Web Services and Apple have partnered to bring modern cloud-provisioning capabilities to the macOS platform with Tuesday morning’s launch of the new mac1.metal ECS instance type. In something ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Amazon Web Services is set to begin a messy but necessary reboot of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances in order to fix a bug that was found within the Xen virtualization platform. The reboots, ...

Google Cloud is back in the news – this time with an assault on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. Continuing its commitment to Moore’s law, Google has also dropped the price of its IaaS offering by 40%.