Almost half-a-million Amazon cloud servers run Linux every day. While Amazon has never officially said what it's running as EC2's base operating system, it's generally accepted that it's a customized ...

The price cuts, announced Monday, apply to EC2 Reserved Instances running Linux/UNIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. They cover Amazon's Standard (m1), Second-Generation ...

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 Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2 ...

Adding Swap Space to Amazon EC2 Linux Micro Instance to Increase the Performance Amazon EC2 Micro Instance comes only with 613MB of memory. Now, this is just not enough for running serious workloads.

Customers can either license JBoss on EC2 and receive a virtual image of the software, or make their subscription of JBoss available on Amazon's compute cloud Red Hat made its JBoss Java middleware ...

Last year, I wrote an article on how to run Ubuntu 9.10 in the Amazon Elastic Cloud (LJ, May 2010). But, the folks over at Canonical haven't been sitting on their laurels during the past year. They're ...