Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are the mechanism that makes it possible to create Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) virtual machine (VM) instances -- here's how to create a custom Windows AMI.

The AWS FSx service allows you to create an external file system that can be attached to an EC2 instance for supplementary storage. Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes it possible to create an external ...

EC2 has changed quite a bit in the last five years, so whether you are new to EC2 or an old hand, it’s worth a look at how to launch your own EC2 instances today My article “Linux Amazon EC2 tutorial: ...

It happens. Thankfully, with the use of Windows PowerShell for AWS, it's easy to get back into your instance. Last week, I was working on a project that required me to set up several Windows-based EC2 ...

Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud tackle two very different cloud computing technology problems today, but are destined to emulate each other over time, Microsoft cloud ...

Amazon Web Services has added a new “high memory extra-large” instance option for its AWS’ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, which provides scalable computing infrastructure over the Internet. The ...