Articles on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Displaying all articles

Amazon Web Services, hosted in data centers like this one in Virginia, supports thousands of websites, apps and online services – but not during its recent DNS outage. Nathan Howard/Getty Images

What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration on few cloud providers is changing that.
A race to the bottom on cloud costs sounds good on the surface, but it could also drive volatility for cloud users. shutterstock.com

Cloud price wars could drive ‘volatility as a service’

Since Google announced the launch of its Compute Engine in mid 2012, the competition for this lucrative slice of the cloud market has heated up. Amazon AWS, which has the lion’s share of the cloud infrastructure…

Top contributors

More