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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

After earlier detailing needed planning, Brien goes to the next step: an in-place upgrade of the Windows Server OS as it relates to AWS EC2. In my previous blog post in this series, I talked about ...

Lots of news from Microsoft as of late, ey? Their new pilot program, The Microsoft Windows Server License Mobility Pilot, allows customers with Enterprise Agreements to migrate their existing Windows ...

As enterprises manage and process large volumes of data in real time, they increasingly turn to in-memory databases to handle those tasks. That is why Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced new EC2 ...

Amazon has publicly launched the first compute instances using its new Graviton4 chip. Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week announced its Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) R8g instances powered by ...

When Amazon launched the AWS EC2 cloud computing service back in 2006, per-hour billing was a big deal, but that scheme also meant that you’d pay for a full hour even if you only used an instance for ...