If you have been using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a while, you are probably familiar with AWS reserved pricing. The concept is well-liked because of EC2-reserved instances. However, it applies to ...

Amazon said Thursday that its Elastic Block Store feature is now available to all of its EC2 Web service customers. The move gives Amazon Web Services a full storage suite delivered as a service. EC2 ...

Last night, Amazon's EC2 web-hosting service suffered a technical problem that took down some of web's biggest social media sites. While most people think of Amazon as the world's biggest online ...

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Information Week's Charles Babcock broke the news this morning in a story detailing the exact cause of the Amazon Web Services' EC2 cloud mishap. Through some good old-fashioned solid reporting, ...

Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), based in Northern Virginia, went offline early this morning, taking with it a number of popular sites including, news aggregator Reddit and ...

The recently announced Google App Engine allows developers to build and host Python-based web applications for free. While you might think such an tool would be welcomed by the developer community, ...