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 ...

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Hot on the heels of the VMware deal, Amazon launched Server Migration Service (SMS), a tool that migrates virtual machines running in VMware environment to the cloud. This new service enables ...

Amazon’s EC2 servers started coming back online today, struggling in the process, as an outage of several hours for numerous popular websites finally comes to an end.

Cloud services are all the rage today, although some of my fellow Linux Journal staffers may scoff when they hear me say that. Cloud services is a nebulous term that can mean anything from completely ...

For the first time in its 13-year history, Amazon Web Services has introduced an offering that allows customers to provision bare-metal servers through its cloud, a move that should help some large ...

Security researchers have intercepted a new variant of the Zeus crimeware using Amazon’s EC2 services to command and control the botnet. The cybercriminals appear to be using Amazon’s RDS managed ...

(NASDAQ: AMZN)--Amazon Silk introduces a radical new paradigm - a "split browser" architecture that accelerates the power of the mobile device hardware by using the computing speed and power of the ...

It's one of Amazon's best-kept secrets. How many computers does it take to keep its Elastic Compute Cloud platform afloat? And now, a researcher with Accenture thinks he has the answer: 445,000.