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 ...

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday rolled out a new networking security feature that will let customers natively replicate network traffic from an EC2 instance. The new VPC traffic mirroring feature ...

Amazon today decided that there’s no better time than a late Thursday afternoon to announce a new instance type for its EC2 cloud computing service, and so the company today announced the launch of ...