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Amazon Web Services has introduced Spot Instances, a new approach to pricing and purchasing computing capacity on its EC2 cloud computing platform.

Amazon Web Services experienced an outage in one of the East Coast availability zones for its EC2 service early Wednesday due to power problems in a data center in northern Virginia.

Here’s a roundup of news announcements from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Hurricane Electirc, Equinix (EQIX) and Level 3 (LVLT).

Amazon Web Services has added a service to host MySQL databases in the cloud. Here's a roundup of notable analysis and commentary on Amazon RDS and its competitive impact on the cloud ecosystem.

CloudScaling says that Amazon is running 40,000 servers to support EC2, and uses that as the basis for a calculation of how much revenue Amazon may be generating.

Amazon WebS ervice (AWS) is now partnering with Apptis, an experienced player in the government IT arena, on its FedCloud service for "federally compliant trusted computing."

A new analysis finds that Amazon EC2 launched more than 50,000 new instances in a recent 24-hour period in just one region, and more than 8.4 million instances have now been launched using EC2.

Amazon (AMZN) has postponed construction of a data center facility in Boardman, Oregon.

Amazon (AMZN) has postponed construction of a data center facility in Boardman, Oregon.

Data Center Jobs: Amazon (AMZN) is seeking a Senior Manager for Data Center Real Estate to oversee its short and long-term capacity requirements.