As promised, Amazon Web Services is finally pushing out larger and faster Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. The cloud giant first announced the upgrade for the block level storage volume tier ...

Today we announce the availability of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Snapshots Archive with AWS Backup. Previously available only in the Amazon EC2 console or Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager, ...

A recent power outage outage at an Amazon AWS data facility and the resulting data loss for some customers shows that storing data in the cloud does not mean you do not also need a backup.

Werner Vogels, Amazon Web Services chief technology officer, in New York this morning. (Photo: Amazon) Werner Vogels, Amazon Web Services’s chief technology officer, this morning announced a new ...

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Over a year ago, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit announced the beta launch of the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). While AWS already offers a number of cloud storage services in the form of S3, ...

Reddit, Foursquare, and Quora were among the many sites that went down recently due to a prolonged outage of Amazon's cloud services. On Thursday April 21, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) went ...