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.

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: ...

Applying available updates is one of the most critical tasks in keeping the Windows OS healthy. Although security updates seem to receive the most attention, there are various other types of updates.

Many companies like mine use AWS infrastructure as a service (IaaS) heavily. Sometimes we want to perform a potentially risky operation on an EC2 instance. As long as we do not work with immutable ...

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 ...

HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ePlus inc. (NASDAQ NGS: PLUS – news) announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Service Delivery designation for Amazon Simple Storage Service ...

Amazon's EC2 service yesterday went into full production mode. The cloud computing platform shed its beta label and, in so doing, gained a service level agreement. These changes mark EC2's transition ...

HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ePlus inc. (NASDAQ NGS: PLUS – news) announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Service Delivery designation for Amazon Simple Storage Service ...

After my previous post, “Cloud to boost proprietary software use?,” Tim Bray questioned whether the pricing comparison of “WebSphere/SUSE vs. JBoss/RHEL on EC2 was a transient anomaly.” JBoss’ Rich ...