2013 has been an exciting year for the field of Statistics and Big Data, with the release of the new R version 3.0.0. We discuss a few topics in this area, providing toy examples and supporting code ...

Amazon's EC2 service yesterday went into full production mode. The cloud computing platform shed its beta label and, in so doing, gained a service level agreement. These changes mark EC2's transition ...

Amazon today announced that it is dropping the prices of dedicated instances on its EC2 cloud computing platform by up to 80%. Dedicated per region fees, which are charged on top of the regular EC2 ...

Amazon today announced a new round of price cuts for a number of services on its cloud platform, including its S3 storage service, EC2 cloud computing platform, ElastiCache, Elastic MapReduce and RDS ...

Two members of the team that created Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud have built a new cloud computing start-up called Benguela, which is expected to emerge from stealth mode next week. Two members of ...

Recognized as one of the leaders in cloud computing innovation, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform just turned four years old. A lot has happened in the cloud ...

Running an Internet startup remains a tricky business, says link-sharing service ShareThis. During the past two years, more than 110,000 sites have added the ShareThis embedded link, allowing readers ...

EC2 has changed quite a bit in the last five years, so whether you are new to EC2 or an old hand, it’s worth a look at how to launch your own EC2 instances today Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2 ...

Businesses can now run Oracle's enterprise software on the Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud at no extra licensing cost, after the companies announced a certification deal. Amazon Web Services (AWS) now ...

Information Week's Charles Babcock broke the news this morning in a story detailing the exact cause of the Amazon Web Services' EC2 cloud mishap. Through some good old-fashioned solid reporting, ...