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: ...

Lots of news from Microsoft as of late, ey? Their new pilot program, The Microsoft Windows Server License Mobility Pilot, allows customers with Enterprise Agreements to migrate their existing Windows ...

It happens. Thankfully, with the use of Windows PowerShell for AWS, it's easy to get back into your instance. Last week, I was working on a project that required me to set up several Windows-based EC2 ...

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HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ePlus inc. (NASDAQ NGS: PLUS – news) announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Service Delivery designation for Amazon Simple Storage Service ...

Amazon said on Wednesday that it plans to offer its cloud computing customers the option of running Microsoft's Windows Server operating system as well as its SQL Server database. Starting sometime ...

Amazon's EC2 service yesterday went into full production mode. The cloud computing platform shed its beta label and, in so doing, gained a service level agreement. These changes mark EC2's transition ...

After my previous post, “Cloud to boost proprietary software use?,” Tim Bray questioned whether the pricing comparison of “WebSphere/SUSE vs. JBoss/RHEL on EC2 was a transient anomaly.” JBoss’ Rich ...

After earlier detailing needed planning, Brien goes to the next step: an in-place upgrade of the Windows Server OS as it relates to AWS EC2. In my previous blog post in this series, I talked about ...

Microsoft’s Windows Azure has beaten all competitors in a year’s worth of cloud speed tests, coming out ahead of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and a dozen others. The independent tests were ...