That’s a question Amazon has answered by offering Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) since it launched way back in 2006. Easily one of the most well-known service offerings from Amazon (perhaps second ...

Rather than hosting their sites on their own servers, these customers turn to Amazon, which essentially rents out its unused -- and highly intricate-- server capacity. EC2 is hosted in five ...

With SMS, Amazon hopes to convince enterprise customers in moving their existing VMs to Amazon EC2, the compute service of AWS. During its initial release, SMS will work only within VMware ...

Dave Brown, VP of EC2 at AWS. Image Credits: Amazon While VMware had built its first hypervisor a couple of years earlier, the EC2 team decided to go with an open source product, the Xen ...

The highly profitable division of Amazon provides servers, storage, networking, remote computing, email, mobile development, and security. AWS can be broken into three main products: EC2 ...

One of those was Amazon’s EC2 Inf1 Instances that used its new Inferentia machine learning inference chip. I chose Inf1 Instances as a top 5 for a few reasons. Machine learning is a killer app ...

Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) hosts many major websites on its web servers through a service called EC2. The "elastic" infrastructure model is designed to scale up automatically to handle giant ...

it’s worth a look at how to launch your own EC2 instances today Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2 has changed quite a bit in the last five years, so whether you are new to EC2 or an old ...

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The service went offline following a routine upgrade on April 21 2011. It took four days to return EC2 back to normal operations. Amazon's outage and customer ...

This week brought the very interesting news that IBM is making some of its software products (database and middleware, primarily) available on Amazon’s EC2. IBM is also offering Amazon Machine ...