AWS recently announced support for nested virtual machines within virtualized EC2 instances running KVM or Hyper-V. A long-awaited feature by the community, the new option enables use cases such as ...

Access to scalable, reliable compute power at a moment's notice is one of the chief advantages of cloud services. But even tools that serve similar purposes can be suited for vastly different ...

Last year, I wrote an article on how to run Ubuntu 9.10 in the Amazon Elastic Cloud (LJ, May 2010). But, the folks over at Canonical haven't been sitting on their laurels during the past year. They're ...

One of the key advantages with cloud-based infrastructure is the ability to easily increase and decrease capacity to match demand. For AWS users, this can be done through the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling ...

AWS' new EC2 high memory instances are built to run large in-memory databases in the cloud such as SAP HANA. The high memory instances are available in configurations of up to 12TB of RAM. As ...