Amazon will keep fielding EC2 instances that have been around since 2006, but it will steer customers to newer, more powerful and efficient resources. The question is: how long will this last? Read more »
The team used their own visual effects and rendering expertise atop Amazon’s brawn to do the sort special effects that succeed because you don’t know they’re there. Read more »
New high-IOPS I2 instances suit use with NoSQL databases and other I/O-sensitive applications. AWS announced plans for these instances in November and is delivering them now. Read more »
Citing customer requests, HP is dropping support for base-level Amazon EC2 APIs from its public cloud. I’m guessing it won’t do the same for its private cloud offerings. Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show a look at Google’s cloud prospects; how Netflix is engineering a way around last year’s Chrismas Eve snafu, and why startups should use Amazon’s cloud services… Read more »
Red Hat Enterprise Linux gets a free tier of its own on Amazon Web Services, perhaps in a bid to unseat Ubuntu which runs more than half of all EC2 instances. Read more »