Almost half-a-million Amazon cloud servers run Linux every day. While Amazon has never officially said what it's running as EC2's base operating system, it's generally accepted that it's a customized ...

DocumentDB started as a Postgres add-on before evolving into a standalone project The Linux Foundation’s adoption signals a new era for open document databases MongoDB’s restrictive licensing ...

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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 ...

AWS has long tried to incorporate Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) compatibility into Amazon Linux, but this latest release takes that to new heights. By using Fedora as its upstream, the new Amazon ...

AWS has launched its own open-source operating system for running containers on both virtual machines and bare metal hosts. Bottlerocket, as the new OS is called, is basically a stripped-down Linux ...