The cloud model that Amazon uses for EC2 consists of multiple compute nodes, loosely coupled, with each node running a collection of tasks from different clients.

Exactly What is an Elastic Compute Cloud? The much-discussed but often not-fully-understood EC2 technology is part of Amazon’s Web Services infrastructure, an alphabet soup of computing services ...

The new offerings will give EC2 users greater control over the cloud computing resources, which will help them increase performance and lower costs, said Peter DeSantis, general manager of Amazon EC2.

Cast Iron Systems is looking to make it easier for users of cloud applications on the Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) to integrate with their in-house enterprise systems. In an announcement ...