Two members of the team that created Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud have built a new cloud computing start-up called Benguela, which is expected to emerge from stealth mode next week. Two members of the team that created Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud ...

The price drop follows AWS reducing the cost of its CloudFront offering in June and a previous AWS price drop in February that included Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon RDS and Amazon VPC. "If you have existing Reserved Instances ...

EC2 has changed quite a bit in the last five years, so whether you are new to EC2 or an old hand, it’s worth a look at how to launch your own EC2 instances today My article “Linux Amazon EC2 tutorial: How to set up an EC2 instance” shows you how to ...

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 North Virginia cloud went down for approximately four hours yesterday, due to ‘elevated packet loss’. The issue was first reported on the AWS Service Health Dashboard at 0208 PDT (0908 GMT) on October 15, with the ...

The Benguela Web site calls it a cloud infrastructure software company, but offers little insight into exactly what type of cloud infrastructure software Menlo Park, Calif.- and Cape Town, South Africa-based Benguela will offer, other than that it "will ...

Amazon’s Web Services operation Thursday launched a persistent storage service for its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) cloud computing service. The new Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) allows users to create storage volumes attached to Amazon EC2 instances ...

Amazon says its cloud computing unit at a US data centre has largely contained the fallout of a worldwide outage but some services are still reportedly disrupted.

In the week that the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency reported worldwide cloud outages cost at least £45m over five years, the all-encompassing Amazon EC2 Cloud was down on Friday night due to heavy storms in Virginia. From ...

Amazon Web Services outages had knocked many global websites and apps offline, including Signal, Coinbase and Robinhood.

Amazon says its systems are back online again after connectivity issues persisted Monday. But reports of problems with Amazon’s cloud computing services unit AWS continue.