The cloud pricing wars are well under way as Amazon Web Services continues to cut prices, but Rackspace CTO John Engates is arguing that there are some nuances that negate some of the benefits. In a ...

Because Amazon employs such a huge cache of networked servers, it can afford to consistently drop prices beyond the range of its competitors. In its latest move, it's reduced pricing on its Dedicated ...

After launching the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) i3 instances around two years ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made available the i3en instances, touted by the company as boasting a lower ...

In keeping with the hybrid cloud trend, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced availability of new high memory instances for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service that the cloud giant called "perfect" ...

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Amazon.com Inc. ( AMZN) recently announced its decision to slash prices of dedicated instances on its cloud-computing platform. Dedicated Instances are EC2 instances that run on single-tenant hardware ...

In its latest round of price cuts, Amazon Web Services this week has reduced the cost of its EC2 Dedicated Instances by up to 80 percent. Amazon introduced EC2 Dedicated Instances over two years ago.

Recently Amazon introduced the ability to create macOS virtual machine instances in the AWS cloud. Although the server market continues to be dominated by Windows and Linux servers, macOS is gaining ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has dropped the price 10 percent for its M3 instances, designed for media encoding, batch processing, caching, and web serving. The price drop is effective November 1 and ...

Amazon today announced that it is dropping the prices of dedicated instances on its EC2 cloud computing platform by up to 80%. Dedicated per region fees, which are charged on top of the regular EC2 ...