Amazon started as a bookstore but has dramatically changed how the data center industry operates. Stay tuned for the latest in Amazon data center news.
Amazon (AMZN) announces the availabiliy of cluster compute instances for EC2, enabling HPC in the Amazon cloud. Also, VMware rolls out its vSphere 4.1 virtualization platform.
More than 365,000 web sites hosted on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform, and that number is growing fast, according to Netcraft. The data highlights EC2's emergence as a competitive threat to hosting companies.
Amazon Web Services says it is making changes in its data centers to address aseries of power outages last week that affected some users of its EC2 cloud computing service.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can now run their cloud computing infrastructure in a data center in the Asia Pacific Region, as Amazon is now hosting services in a data center in Singapore.
Active Power (ACPW) reports $6 million in orders, Interxion expands Amsterdam data center, Equinix (EQIX) and Switch & Data (SDXC) disclose another extension for closing their merger.
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