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 ...

Remember when Amazon.com Inc. was only a bookstore? It seems an eon ago, back in the Dark Ages before instant connectivity. In reality, it was 2006. But when the company people knew for e-commerce ...

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 ...