Almost half-a-million Amazon cloud servers run Linux every day. While Amazon has never officially said what it's running as EC2's base operating system, it's generally accepted that it's a customized ...

AWS is retiring EC2-Classic soon: Here’s what you need to know Your email has been sent Amazon Web Services has announced its plans to shut down its venerable EC2-Classic product, with some users ...

At AWS re:Invent, the cloud giant said it will offer EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances to run on demand macOS workloads. The EC2 Mac instances don't cover Apple's M1 processor, which is powering ...

Remember when Amazon.com Inc. was only a bookstore? It seems an eon ago, back in the Dark Ages before instant connectivity. In reality, it was 2006. But when the company people knew for e-commerce ...

Nick Hardiman describes several methods of backups of your Amazon EC2 machines. He also details the steps for restoring snapshot backups. As part of my operational readiness preparation, I want to ...