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 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 ...

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 ...

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 Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2 ...

When I learned (from Amazon blogger Jeff Barr) that Amazon.Com had released its own Linux, dubbed Amazon Machine Image, my reaction was simple. It's about time. While Amazon began life as an online ...

Customers can either license JBoss on EC2 and receive a virtual image of the software, or make their subscription of JBoss available on Amazon's compute cloud Red Hat made its JBoss Java middleware ...

In this excerpt from A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Mark Sobell explains how to start a virtual Linux system in the cloud using Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud).