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 ...

AWS is retiring EC2-Classic soon: Here’s what you need to know Your email has been sent Amazon Web Services has announced its plans to shut down its venerable EC2-Classic product, with some users ...

EC2 outage ends, but what is the long term impact? Amazon is promising a detailed post mortem following the outage of its EC2 platform - but while the incident is likely to make CIOs review their ...

We all envision the cloud to be an on demand resource where at anytime we can add computing and storage capacity at the drop of the hat. Simply bring on as many virtual servers or as much disk storage ...

Traefik's Application Intelligence Layer solves this by providing a unified point of control that understands all three platforms. Organizations gain consistent routing, authentication, and ...

Here’s a fascinating analysis of just how much business Amazon’s EC2 cloud services has. It’s worth a read. Cloud blogger Guy Rosen deduces the meaning of EC2 resource identifiers and uses them 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 ...

Amazon today announced that it is dropping the prices of dedicated instances on its EC2 cloud computing platform by up to 80%. Dedicated per region fees, which are charged on top of the regular EC2 ...

Just days before re:Invent, the announcements from AWS started to trickle in. One of those teasers included a powerful feature for Amazon EC2 – predictive scaling. Traditionally, auto-scaling in EC2 ...