AMI is a pre-configured template used to create and launch virtual servers (EC2 instances ... This makes scaling and managing cloud infrastructure more efficient. AMIs can be public, or private ...

VMware Cloud Foundation for EC2 can be a "perfect wrapper" around ... that would meet some of the needs of customers that wanted infrastructure deployed at far-flung outposts.

DeSantis, vice president of global infrastructure, is one of three AWS ... early days of developing Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2—the service that kicked off the public cloud revolution.