Amazon protects cloud applications by running them across multiple availability zones, but what happens when more than one zone fails? For cloud customers willing to pony up a little extra cash, ...

Amazon reports this morning that it is making progress in restoring full service to customers of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational Database Service in the eastern portion of the country ...

The outage of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) two weeks ago left businesses scrambling, and the same thing happened to consumers during last week's data breach of Sony's PlayStation Network ...

Amazon has told its EC2 customers in Europe some of them could face outages of as long as 24 to 48 hours as the cloud provider struggles to recover from a lightning strike that disrupted power ...

For cloud customers willing to pony up a little extra cash, Amazon has an enticing proposition: Spread your application across multiple availability zones for a near-guarantee that it won’t suffer ...