The AWS re:Invent event marks the last and largest conference I will attend in 2020 – and the year certainly ended with a bang. This event is always super-interesting, and the company continues to ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Brien Posey, who frequently writes about various techniques for using PowerShell to manage Hyper-V virtual machines, demonstrates how the task automation and configuration management framework can ...

Scalr is a recently open-sourced framework for managing the massive serving power of Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) service. While web services have been using EC2 for increased capacity since ...

Amazon’s EC2 cloud storage service experienced a significant outage today, grinding operations to a halt for many websites. The company cited “instance ...

When Amazon launched the AWS EC2 cloud computing service back in 2006, per-hour billing was a big deal, but that scheme also meant that you’d pay for a full hour even if you only used an instance for ...