Although Amazon makes it relatively easy to fine-tune the instance configuration process, there is often quite a bit of work that must be done after a new instance has been created. Such tasks are ...

Amazon Web Services has kicked off a large scale maintenance reboot of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances across the world in what appears to be a response to a critical security flaw. Amazon has ...

The launch will make live multi-stream video transcoding with resolutions up to 4K UHD easier and more cost effective, AWS said When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

AWS is adding a new kind of virtual machine to its growing list of EC2 options. These new machines feature local NVMe storage, which offers significantly faster throughput than standard SSDs. These ...

At the re:Invent customer conference in Las Vegas today, AWS announced two new instance types designed for specific kinds of applications. The first is a generalized EC2 instance designed for ...

Amazon Web Services is set to begin a messy but necessary reboot of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances in order to fix a bug that was found within the Xen virtualization platform. The reboots, ...

In an AWS environment, it can sometimes be useful to host copies of an EC2 instance in multiple regions. An organization might do this as a way of ensuring that an application performs well for users ...

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