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 ...

Glenn K. Lockwood from SDSC writes that setting up a working set of EC2 instances that have the necessary configuration to run MPI applications can be quite daunting, so he has posted a guide. Most ...

In this step-by-step guide, Mark Sobell shows how to start a Linux instance on Amazon Web Services' EC2.

Many companies like mine use AWS infrastructure as a service (IaaS) heavily. Sometimes we want to perform a potentially risky operation on an EC2 instance. As long as we do not work with immutable ...

Snapshots are a handy mechanism for backing up your Amazon EC2 instances, but there's a cost to storing your snapshots. It's a little bit tricky to estimate the cost of creating snapshots for your VM ...

Nick Hardiman shows you how to set up a secure connection to an Amazon EC2 machine using PuTTY and Pageant to handle your private key.

Using the AWS Launch Wizard to Simplify App Deployment, Part 1: Active Directory Setup Brien Posey begins his two-part take on the tool by explaining the Active Directory deployment process and more.

New customers of Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud service will be given access to AWS' virtual private cloud platform.

My article “ Linux Amazon EC2 tutorial: How to set up an EC2 instance ” shows you how to set up Amazon Web Services’ compute service if you use Linux (specifically, Ubuntu Linux).