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 ...

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are the mechanism that makes it possible to create Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) virtual machine (VM) instances -- here's how to create a custom Windows AMI.

How to create a new AMI from a snapshot and launch a new VM Your email has been sent AWS jargon Examine the original EC2 machine. Take a snapshot and make a new AMI Launch a new instance Clean up Nick ...

Brien Posey, who frequently writes about various techniques for using PowerShell to manage Hyper-V virtual machines, demonstrates how the task automation and configuration management framework can ...

AWS is adding a new kind of virtual machine to its growing list of EC2 options. These new machines feature local NVMe storage, which offers significantly faster throughput than standard SSDs. These ...

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HPC in the Cloud got a boost this week with this announcement of two updates to the Amazon EC2 instance family: the general availability of EC2 Bare Metal instances and C5D instances with local SSD ...