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 ...

New users of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud service EC2 will be given access to a virtual private cloud by default. New EC2 customers, and customers launching in new regions, will be launched onto ...

Attackers can compromise a new feature in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to hijack cloud accounts' static public IP addresses and abuse them for various malicious purposes, researchers have found. Threat ...

Mitiga threat researchers have identified what they describe as a new potential attack vector leveraging recently introduced functionality in Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology that has made ...

Amazon on Thursday outlined a series of changes that build up the resiliency of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. The key change is the addition of so-called availability zones, which allows ...

Brien Posey cuts through the confusion associated with allocating IP addresses to EC2 instances on the Amazon cloud, which is done automatically though users can also associate elastic IP addresses ...