Amazon today launched a new web service – EBS, the Elastic Block Store (yes I also first read it as ‘Elastic Book Store’) for EC2. EBS provides persistent storage for EC2 computing instances, and the ...

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The Eastern datacenter remains the problem. Amazon is reporting that its California data center is operating normally. For those trying to understand what went wrong and what Amazon is doing to fix it ...

According to AWS's status dashboard and service updates, the company began investigating connectivity and latency issues around EC2 instances in its U.S. East Coast region at 4:41 a.m. Eastern. It ...

The popularity of Amazon’s cheap, easily scalable hosting is showing its downside right now, with a number of popular websites and services throwing up errors or being down completely. We can confirm ...

Amazon’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) allows developers to create storage volumes that can be mounted by Amazon EC2 instances, among other things. While it was always relatively easy to move an EC2 ...

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, ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) didn't have a relaxing Sunday night before the work week ahead, with its EC2 instances in its main US-EAST-1 region struggling. And, as of Monday morning PDT, some users are ...