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.
Cloud technologists are intrigued by the potential applications for commodity-style trading of compute capacity, and have begun discussing how such an exchange might work. Key ingredients: the right framework and a trusted market maker.
Some users of Amazon EC2 are reporting that the cloud computing service is having problems scaling efficiently. Amazon says these are not capacity issues and pledges to help sort out any customer scaling challenges.
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.
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.