Dave Brown, VP of EC2 at AWS. Image Credits: Amazon While VMware had built its first hypervisor a couple of years earlier, the EC2 team decided to go with an open source product, the Xen ...

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 version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). On top of that ...

it’s worth a look at how to launch your own EC2 instances today Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2 has changed quite a bit in the last five years, so whether you are new to EC2 or an old ...

Amazon today announced that it is dropping the prices of dedicated instances on its EC2 cloud computing platform by up to 80%. Dedicated per region fees, which are charged on top of the regular ...

Graviton4 based Amazon EC2 R8g instances are more powerful and energy-efficient than the previous generation, AWS says. Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud R8g instances with the high-performance ...

Amazon Web Services created an "AWS Compute Services" team, an email viewed by Insider shows. It combined services such as EC2 and serverless products like Lambda into a single organization.

However, Amazon provides a mechanism that can simplify this post deployment configuration work. EC2 makes it possible to automatically run a script within an instance. You can configure the script as ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has retired its EC2-Classic instances, a year later than the company first proposed it would. Back in August 2021, the cloud giant announced that EC2-Classic would meet its ...

For those unfamiliar, Amazon EC2 Mac instances allow individuals and organizations to run macOS workloads in the cloud based on Amazon Web Services. Customers can choose to run instances based on ...