Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) this week announced the release of its next Linux server OS, Amazon Linux 2. Dubbed build 2017.12, the preliminary version of Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available ...

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 new service, which the cloud giant calls EC2 Dedicated Hosts, allows customers to allocate "an actual physical server" in a specified region to run one or more EC2 instances on top of it.

Cloud services are all the rage today, although some of my fellow Linux Journal staffers may scoff when they hear me say that. Cloud services is a nebulous term that can mean anything from completely ...

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 ...

At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS today announced the launch of Arm-based servers for its EC2 cloud computing service. These aren’t run-of-the-mill Arm chips, though. AWS took the standard ...

AWS Lightsail, which launched in 2016, is Amazon’s answer to the rise of Digital Ocean, OVH and other affordable virtual private server (VPS) players. Lightsail started as a pretty basic service, but ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. is gearing up to refresh two of its custom processor families, CNBC reported late Tuesday. The cloud giant plans to release an updated version of its AWS Graviton4 central ...

Linux powers the enterprise. From the cloud to containers and to the backbone of your network, Linux is there working tirelessly to keep your business humming. Whether you use Linux in your AWS, Azure ...

The successful migration from purely private to public and hybrid cloud arrangements has substantially increased the level of confidence IT administrators have in the cloud. And among the top cloud ...