Amazon Web Services usually stays schtum about the exact disposition of the servers it rents in its Elastic Compute Cloud, but made an exception on Tuesday with the announcement it is offering ...

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

Slack, Snapchat, Signal and Perplexity were some of the affected apps and websites, among a host of big names. AWS offers ...

Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud hosting that underpins much of the web and everyday online tools, went offline ...

Are you curious as to what the AWS EC2 server is all about and what it can do for you? Let’s say that your current computer setup is subpar or perhaps you need a second unit for remote production ...

You might have seen that AWS had a global outage on Monday which caused problems across the internet. But what is AWS anyway, and why does it matter so much?

How Amazon’s most important cloud region became critical to daily online life, and why even a brief disruption can have global effects.

On October 20, an AWS outage caused widespread disruption to websites and apps, highlighting the reliance on cloud services ...

Welcome back to our series on how Ars Technica is hosted and run! Last week, in part one, we cracked open the (virtual) doors to peek inside the Ars (virtual) data center. We talked about our Amazon ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, ...