AWS fired a shot across Digital Ocean’s bow this morning at the AWS re:Invent conference when it announced new virtual private servers starting at just $5 a month.

Amazon debuts new AWS features: FPGA instances, Elastic GPUs, virtual private servers, and more by Dan Richman on November 30, 2016 at 9:47 am ...

AWS Lightsail, which launched in 2016, is Amazon's answer to the rise of Digital Ocean, OVH and other affordable virtual private server (VPS) players.

Amazon unveiled AWS Graviton, its own homegrown Arm CPUs for EC2 virtual machine deployment, upending the x86-64 hegemony in AWS and mainstream cloud deployments.

A server and virtualization study done by 451 Research late in 2013 found that, although spending on server virtualization projects (VMware's forte) is still strong, 41% of respondents said that ...

Intel lands AWS deal for custom Xeon 6 chips, highlighting continuing competition with AMD and ARM in hyperscale cloud ...

For the first time in its 13-year history, Amazon Web Services has introduced an offering that allows customers to provision bare-metal servers through its cloud, a move that should help some ...

A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...

Recent research indicates that Amazon's EC2 cloud is made up of almost half-a-million servers--each of them running a variation of Red Hat Linux for their base operating system.

Ever since the AWS cloud was first introduced, organizations have been searching for ways of migrating their on-premises applications to the cloud. While it is often possible to perform a ...