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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 ...

With the launch of Windows Server 2016 three months ago, Microsoft gave its users the ability to use the Docker engine to run containers on Windows server. This meant developers could now package ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amazon said on Wednesday that it plans to offer its cloud computing customers the option of running Microsoft's Windows Server operating system as well as its SQL Server database. Starting sometime ...

Windows Server 2012 is reaching its expected end of life in 2023. As such, organizations need to begin planning now for an upgrade to a supported Windows Server OS. EC2 instances that are running ...

Microsoft’s Windows Azure has beaten all competitors in a year’s worth of cloud speed tests, coming out ahead of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and a dozen others. The independent tests were ...