On Sept. 30, 2008, Amazon.com Inc. announced the availability of a public beta version of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) with Windows Server 2003. The default Amazon Machine Image (AMI) creates a ...

Fifteen years ago this week on August 25, 2006, AWS turned on the very first beta instance of EC2, its cloud-based virtual computers. Today cloud computing, and more specifically infrastructure as a ...

As enterprises manage and process large volumes of data in real time, they increasingly turn to in-memory databases to handle those tasks. That is why Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced new EC2 ...

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 ...

Nick Hardiman describes several methods of backups of your Amazon EC2 machines. He also details the steps for restoring snapshot backups. As part of my operational readiness preparation, I want to ...