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Google and Microsoft reportedly in race to launch IaaS

...a cloud service that will compete with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Microsoft has also been racing to get its own Infrastructure as a... Read more

18 May, 2012 by Dara Kerr

Adobe and AWS give Flash a cloud option

...By using it hosted on Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, customers have less to deal with regarding installation and configuration details... Read more

16 December, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

Cloud outage: Amazon spells out compensation

Amazon apologises and promises to learn from the EC2 disruption… Social news site reddit will be one of the Amazon customers... Read more

3 May, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Amazon hardware glitch disrupts EC2 and retail sites

...disruption to its business services and retail sites. European Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and other cloud services were affected for up to two hours, Amazon... Read more

13 December, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Oracle plugs apps into Amazon's EC2 cloud

...fully certifies and supports a number of applications on Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) when they are run using Oracle VM virtualisation, the companies announced at... Read more

22 September, 2010 by Jack Clark

Amazon adds EC2 supercomputing option

...Compute, is a variation of one of the earliest services Amazon offered, EC2, or Elastic Compute Cloud. Compared with the standard EC2, Cluster Compute offers... Read more

14 July, 2010 by Stephen Shankland
Cloud security: How to make the switch

Cloud security: How to make the switch

...actors — we have already seen criminal activity being hosted in Amazon's EC2 cloud, for example — brings a host of new challenges. How do you... Read more

26 February, 2012 by Rik Ferguson

Amazon launches assault on tablet market

...on Wednesday, alongside its new Silk browser that plugs into Amazon's EC2 cloud platform in order to speed up loading and display of web... Read more

29 September, 2011 by Ben Woods

AWS ElastiCache makes apps jump to attention

...policies and hooking the ElastiCache software into their rented Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) virtual computers via the Memcached protocol, Amazon evangelist Jeff Barr wrote in... Read more

23 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

AWS cloud accidentally deletes customer data

A software bug caused some customers' data in Amazon Web Services's European cloud to be erased after lightning downed the service on Sunday Read more

10 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

AWS cloud outage knocks out Quora, Reddit

...and Foursquare. The network-connectivity issues struck Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) at Amazon's northern Virginia site, which handles AWS operations for the... Read more

9 August, 2011 by Steven Musil

Lightning strikes Amazon's European cloud

...AWS) acknowledged on Sunday evening, affected its Dublin-based Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service (RDS) cloud services, among others. The damage to... Read more

8 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

An enterprising approach to cloud management

When it comes to cloud adoption, one aspect is like any new technology. Sound management is the key to success, even in a rapidly evolving environment Read more

20 May, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

VMware grabs WaveMaker web development platform

...developed applications to be directly deployed to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Rackspace, OpSource or Eucalyptus clouds. In addition, it provides visual application development... Read more

9 March, 2011 by Jack Clark

OpenStack cloud gets Bexar release and backers

...in particular the support for Amazon Web Services's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). "[OpenStack] looks a terrific base for building out open source-based public... Read more

4 February, 2011 by Jack Clark

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