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, ...

Although Amazon makes it relatively easy to fine-tune the instance configuration process, there is often quite a bit of work that must be done after a new instance has been created. Such tasks are ...

Security researchers discovered a name confusion attack that allows access to an Amazon Web Services account to anyone that publishes an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with a specific name. Dubbed "whoAMI ...