Brien Posey drills down on how to set up termination protection in the Amazon EC2 dashboard to prevent mission-critical instances from being accidentally deleted. By its very nature, cloud-based ...

Normally when you create a new virtual machine (VM) instance in EC2 in the AWS cloud, that instance uses Elastic Block Storage (EBS). EBS might best be described as persistent block storage. However, ...

Hot on the heels of the VMware deal, Amazon launched Server Migration Service (SMS), a tool that migrates virtual machines running in VMware environment to the cloud. This new service enables ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated the pricing structure for some of its Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Capacity ...

Amazon says it has taken steps to mitigate a security issue in its cloud computing infrastructure that was identified recently by researchers from MIT and the University of California at San Diego.

When Amazon chopped EC2 prices earlier this month, I wondered whether Microsoft would make good on its long-standing promise to match those cuts. On January 14, Microsoft responded, announcing price ...