Amazon’s EC2 status checks help identify problems that may impair an instance’s ability to run your applications. These status checks show the results of automated tests performed by EC2 on every running instance that detect hardware and software issues. Amazon has now introduced the first Volume Status check for EBS volumes. The new status...
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Amazon Cloud free usage tier service now includes Microsoft Windows Servers 2008 R2 on micro instances. The one year almost free trial which give users up to 750 hours per month of cloud computing services is an excellent starting point for users wanting to learn Cloud computing using Amazon’s EC2. Running Linux on micro...
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Amazon EC2 functionality now includes a status check to help identify problems related to an instance ability to run applications. EC2 contains an automated process that tests every running instance and tries to detect both hardware and software issues. The mechanism reports problems back to customers where they would be able to distinguish software...
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AWS announced a public beta version of its new High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster with eight extra large instances, high bandwidth and low latency features that allow customers to run CPU intensive applications such as, physics simulations, aircraft design and others. This new Cluster Compute instance provides 2.5 times the CPU performance, more memory...
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If you are new to Cloud Computing and find hard it hard to launch your first instance or application then I suggest you pay a visit to Amazon’s AWS online guides. The guides walk you through each step of the process and provide various examples which you can use as a starting point. Additionally...
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Amazon AWS has made available very high spec EC2 instance types which may be easily referred to as compute-intensive beasts! Now you can run Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 on the EC2 Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instances. These instances provide you with plenty of RAM, cycles, and network performance for heavy-duty workloads. Check the...
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