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Cloud outage: Amazon spells out compensation

Amazon apologises and promises to learn from the EC2 disruption… Read more

3 May, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Amazon outage: What it means for the cloud

EC2 outage ends, but what is the long term impact? Read more

26 April, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Amazon cloud outage affects reddit and Quora

Amazon's cloud service EC2 fails... Read more

21 April, 2011 by Shelley Portet
The Fault Management System Using <endeca_term>Amazon EC2</endeca_term>: Web Application Deployment on Cloud

The Fault Management System Using Amazon EC2: Web Application Deployment on Cloud

Cloud computing is a technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications.... Read more

27 January, 2012
Deconstructing <endeca_term>Amazon EC2</endeca_term> Spot Instance Pricing

Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing

Cloud providers possessing large quantities of spare capacity must either incentivize clients to purchase it or suffer... Read more

5 October, 2011
Data Sharing Options for Scientific Workflows on <endeca_term>Amazon EC2</endeca_term>

Data Sharing Options for Scientific Workflows on Amazon EC2

Efficient data management is a key component in achieving good performance for scientific workflows in distributed... Read more

1 November, 2010
Video Publisher Chooses Windows Azure Over <endeca_term>Amazon EC2</endeca_term> for Cost-Effective Scalability

Video Publisher Chooses Windows Azure Over Amazon EC2 for Cost-Effective Scalability

Software company Sagastream developed an online video platform that enables customers to publish and manage interactive... Read more

1 July, 2010
Towards Optimal Capacity Segmentation With Hybrid Cloud Pricing

Towards Optimal Capacity Segmentation With Hybrid Cloud Pricing

...are usually priced in multiple markets with different service guarantees. For example, Amazon EC2 prices virtual instances under three pricing schemes - the subscription option (a... Read more

1 April, 2012
Silverline: Toward Data Confidentiality in Storage-Intensive Cloud Applications

Silverline: Toward Data Confidentiality in Storage-Intensive Cloud Applications

...availability and elastic access to resources, third-party cloud infrastructures such as Amazon EC2 are revolutionizing the way today's businesses operate. Unfortunately, taking advantage... Read more

28 October, 2011
Opportunistic Flooding to Improve TCP Transmit Performance in Virtualized Clouds

Opportunistic Flooding to Improve TCP Transmit Performance in Virtualized Clouds

Virtualization is a key technology that powers cloud computing platforms such as Amazon EC2. Virtual Machine (VM) consolidation, where multiple VMs share a physical host... Read more

1 May, 2011
Twinkle: A Fast Resource Provisioning Mechanism for Internet Services

Twinkle: A Fast Resource Provisioning Mechanism for Internet Services

A key benefit of Amazon EC2-style cloud computing service is the ability to instantiate a large... Read more

27 March, 2011
Interaction-Based Programming Towards Translucent Clouds

Interaction-Based Programming Towards Translucent Clouds

Today's cloud computing platforms are typically "Opaque": Amazon EC2 users only receive virtual units of CPU and memory, and physical... Read more

6 June, 2010

Phonedeck puts Android phone functions into the cloud

...reject incoming calls from the browser. Phonedeck uses SSL encryption on its Amazon EC2 servers, and the company is planning further encryption in the future... Read more

4 April, 2012

Suse Linux Enterprise 11 gets SP2 release

...s website for x86, 64-bit, System Z, IBM Power, Itanium and Amazon EC2 Read more

29 February, 2012

5 Cloud Providers to Watch in 2012

...s AWS or Amazon Web Services offers two main cloud platforms namely Amazon EC2 and Amazon s3. If Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute functions with the... Read more

17 January, 2012

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