If you've spent much time working within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment, you've probably found that some tasks, such as creating new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud 2 (EC2) instances, can be ...

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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 ...

Are you curious as to what the AWS EC2 server is all about and what it can do for you? Let’s say that your current computer setup is subpar or perhaps you need a second unit for remote production ...

The AWS FSx service allows you to create an external file system that can be attached to an EC2 instance for supplementary storage. Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes it possible to create an external ...

When Amazon launched the AWS EC2 cloud computing service back in 2006, per-hour billing was a big deal, but that scheme also meant that you’d pay for a full hour even if you only used an instance for ...