Early look at Amazon's Graviton2 Arm chip, expected to be publicly available in a few months, suggests better performance per dollar on EC2 than Intel chips
It's been a year and a half since Amazon released their first-generation Graviton Arm-based processor core, publicly available in AWS EC2 as the so-called ‘A1’ instances. Tweets: @timbray , @oimaurici...
AWS: all but a small percentage of EC2 instances are patched, remaining will be within hours; says customers must also patch their instance operating systems
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AWS says that beginning October 2, it will start charging EC2 customers by the second, not hour; competitors Azure and Google Cloud charge by the minute
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Amazon announces new Elastic File System storage service for EC2 machines; preview coming soon
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Amazon confirms EC2 reboot due to Xen hypervisor issues, says less than 10% of instances will be affected
EC2 Maintenance Update — Today I've received a few questions about a maintenance update we're performing late this week through early next week, so I thought it would be useful to provide an update.
AWS to roll out urgent patch, will reboot the vast majority of EC2 instances beginning Sept 26
AWS to Reboot a Substantial Number of EC2 Instances — Today Amazon Web Services (AWS) notified its customers that it will be rolling out an urgent patch to all hosts causing a maintenance reboot …
Amazon's EC2 sees partial outage, taking Reddit, Minecraft, Coursera, Flipboard and others down in tow
It's another bad day for customers of Amazon's AWS and EC2 hosting. The company is presently reporting an outage in its Service Health dashboard which seems to be affecting a number of Internet favor...
Can we use S3 and EC2 to host free speech?
As far as I know the issues around Amazon's decision to evict WikiLeaks from EC2 have not been discussed in the tech blogosphere. If I've missed the discussion, please post pointers in a comment on t...
WordPress and Windows Azure
This week I had a unique opportunity to appear at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, to demo four open source technologies — WordPress, Apache, MySQL, PHP — running on Micro...