A software bug in a data collection agent for Amazon's Elastic Block Storage (EBS) system triggered last Monday's service outage for many services running on Amazon Web Services, the company said today.
Will Monday's downtime for some customers of Amazon Web Services have a lasting impact for AWS? The incident is unlikely to cause any kind of mass exodus, but may hamper Amazon's' enterprise ambitions and has emboldened rivals to pursue AWS...
Amazon Web Services is experiencing another outage, and as in the case with earlier incidents, the cloud computing giant's performance woes are rippling across the Internet.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to expand its high-speed access to its cloud computing service, adding Telx and Atlantic Metro Communications. The AWS Direct Connect program allows customers to establish a private network connection to the...
The NASDAQ OMX Group announced the launch of FinQloud, a new cloud computing platform powered by Amazon Web Services and exclusively designed for the financial services industry.
As Amazon Web Services continues to extend its Direct Connect service, Amazon is now looking beyond specific data centers and providers, and offering private hookups through Hibernia Atlantic, a fiber provider with a network that spans dozens of...
Amazon Web Services today rolled out Glacier, a new "cold storage" service that expands the company's cloud computing platform. The announcement immediately prompted questions about how Glacier works and how it may impact the storage world. Here's...
New York is getting a faster on-ramp to the Amazon Web Services cloud. CoreSite Realty said Tuesday that AWS Direct Connect service will now be available in CoreSite's New York data center at 32 Avenue of the Americas.
Bidding for unused capacity on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing platform has become more competitive, causing periodic price spikes in the spot market Amazon has created.
