Amazon Web Services is making some major changes to how it charges for reserved EC2 instances — a move that seems to be at least partially motivated by the changes Google announced earlier this year.

Amazon's new G2 instance, launched Tuesday, features 1,536 CUDA cores and 4 GB of video RAM. It also includes an Intel Sandy Bridge processor running at 2.6GHz with Turbo Boost enabled, 8 virtual CPUs ...

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The cloud pricing wars are well under way as Amazon Web Services continues to cut prices, but Rackspace CTO John Engates is arguing that there are some nuances that negate some of the benefits. In a ...

Around six years ago, Amazon introduced an EC2 usage option at very low costs: Spot Instances. With EC2 Spot Instances, you can save money, but there’s a catch – they won’t necessarily be available ...

In its latest round of price cuts, Amazon Web Services this week has reduced the cost of its EC2 Dedicated Instances by up to 80 percent. Amazon introduced EC2 Dedicated Instances over two years ago.