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 ...

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The Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment allows you to create a variety of instance types, including on-demand instances and spot instances. Occasionally, you may find that you need to create several ...

If you administer cloud servers or services, such as those from Amazon Web Services or Rackspace, you might be relieved to learn that you don’t need access to a notebook or desktop PC to perform ...

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 ...

Several announcements show that the Amazon infrastructure-as-a-service model is gaining serious traction, helping today's start-ups/ISVs/SaaS providers quickly create consumer and business services ...