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.
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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 Web Services (AMZN) has introduced Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, which allows companies to connect a set of Amazon EC2 instances with a corporate data center using a VPN over IPsec.