In preview today, AWS announced its new 6th Generation EC2 instances, led by its Arm-based Graviton2. I had analyzed many Arm-based datacenter processors, but this is different.

We do not need this for now. Tenancy: What really makes the economics of EC2 work is that most of the time your instance is probably doing nothing.

Brien Posey shows how to host copies of an EC2 instance in multiple regions, which can help organizations ensure that an application performs well for users who reside in a different part of the world ...

Amazon kicked off its 2016 AWS re:Invent conference with a peppering of announcements regarding its EC2 instance roadmap. The company dropped an updated R4 instance, expanded T2 instances, and a ...

Recent research indicates that Amazon's EC2 cloud is made up of almost half-a-million servers--each of them running a variation of Red Hat Linux for their base operating system.

If you've spent much time working within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment, you've probably found that some tasks, such as creating new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud 2 (EC2) instances, can be ...

These new chips will also be deployed in what AWS calls the “EC2 Trn2 UltraServers.” These instances will feature 64 interconnected Trainium2 chips which can scale up to 83.2 peak petaflops of ...