by ezcloud | Mar 21, 2018 | Amazon Web Services
Out with Xen, in with ‘core KVM technology’ for new C5 instances and future VMs too AWS has revealed it has created a new hypervisor based on KVM, not the Xen hypervisor on which it has relied for years. The new hypervisor was unveiled as a virtual...
by ezcloud | Mar 20, 2018 | Amazon Web Services, Amazon
Amazon Web Services is arguably Amazon’s second-greatest creation, after the construction of a retail empire that has done so much to influence the way just about everything is bought and sold. But if the parent is holding back the child, it’s time to let go. First it...
by ezcloud | Mar 20, 2018 | Amazon Web Services, Amazon
Wired on AWS: In the first half of 2015, revenue from AWS jumped 65 percent and accounted for 7 percent of Amazon’s overall revenue—and 37 percent of its profits. Though they share some infrastructure, AWS and Amazon’s e-commerce and hardware businesses are very...
by ezcloud | Mar 20, 2018 | Amazon Web Services, Amazon
There are lots of stories about the formation of AWS, but this much we know: 10 years ago, Amazon Web Services, the cloud Infrastructure as a Service arm of Amazon.com, was launched with little fanfare as a side business for Amazon.com. Today, it’s a highly...
by ezcloud | Sep 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, General
Amazon just announced how it’s changing Whole Foods–and at the same time provided our latest answer to the question: Just how powerful is Amazon, anyway? Because we already knew it’s powerful enough to dominate 43 percent of all online...
by ezcloud | Sep 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, General
New AWS software could help companies move on-premises applications to the public cloud. The initial product stemming from the AWS-VMware partnership could be delayed. Amazon Web Services is thinking about building software for corporate data centers as part of...
