Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are the mechanism that makes it possible to create Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) virtual machine (VM) instances -- here's how to create a custom Windows AMI ..

It’s a trend that prompts vendors that serve enterprise IT to respond with hybrid cloud “in a box ... for Windows-centric application suites like Office 365, and VMC on AWS for VMware ...

VMware and Microsoft are working on a new cloud partnership, which was quietly teased in December. And this could help Microsoft as it seeks to overthrow Amazon's lead in cloud computing.