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, ...

AWS and AMD announced the availability of new memory-optimized, high-frequency Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) ...

One of the most common problems that IT pros encounter with EC2 instances is creating an instance, only to outgrow it later on. An admin might, for example, provision an instance with a certain amount ...

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Data deduplication is commonplace nowadays in backup and is a common feature of backup software products and disk-based backup devices. But data deduplication – or more commonly single instance ...

After launching the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) i3 instances around two years ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made available the i3en instances, touted by the company as boasting a lower ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

HPC in the Cloud got a boost this week with this announcement of two updates to the Amazon EC2 instance family: the general availability of EC2 Bare Metal instances and C5D instances with local SSD ...

AWS offers multiple options to host your databases serving OLTP workloads – host your own managed database on Amazon EC2 instances or use Amazon RDS managed by AWS. RDS manages high availability, ...

New AWS Graviton2-powered C6gn instances deliver 100 Gbps networking performance and provide 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances New AMD-powered G4ad ...