Many companies like mine use AWS infrastructure as a service (IaaS) heavily. Sometimes we want to perform a potentially risky operation on an EC2 instance. As long as we do not work with immutable ...

Several announcements show that the Amazon infrastructure-as-a-service model is gaining serious traction, helping today's start-ups/ISVs/SaaS providers quickly create consumer and business services ...

Cloud services are all the rage today, although some of my fellow Linux Journal staffers may scoff when they hear me say that. Cloud services is a nebulous term that can mean anything from completely ...

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment allows you to create a variety of instance types, including on-demand instances and spot instances. Occasionally, you may find that you need to create several ...

The vast majority of the EC2 instances that are created are not intended to be publicly accessible. These instances are assigned private IP addresses that are valid only within a specific virtual ...

How worried is Amazon (AMZN) about Google's new App Engine? Justifably worried, it seems. Which is perhaps why they're now courting users of their EC2 server offering with new feature: Essentially, a ...