Amazon Web Services (AWS) beefed up its cloud infrastructure portfolio Wednesday by introducing several virtual machine types intended to increase resource flexibility, delivering to customers a ...

AWS is adding a new kind of virtual machine to its growing list of EC2 options. These new machines feature local NVMe storage, which offers significantly faster throughput than standard SSDs. These ...

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Normally when you create a new virtual machine (VM) instance in EC2 in the AWS cloud, that instance uses Elastic Block Storage (EBS). EBS might best be described as persistent block storage. However, ...

Earlier this year, Amazon’s AWS group said that it was working on bringing instance types with between 4 to 16TB of memory to its users. It’s now starting to fulfill this promise as the company today ...

Amazon Web Services on Wednesday introduced a new round of price cuts mostly geared to making more affordable the Reserved Instances through which customers can realize savings by booking cloud ...