Most Internet users know the cloud as a place where files are stored digitally instead of on a physical device, like a computer’s hard drive, but what exactly does it look like?

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) creates a MySQL database server in the cloud. The notion of “database as a service” is already a reality, thanks to products like FathomDB. Amazon ...

The already high energy toll of the cloud — currently 1.8 percent of U.S. electricity consumption — could shoot up again once the less-efficient server farms (“clunkers,” as Shehabi calls ...

Peter DeSantis, vice president of infrastructure at Amazon Web Services, speaks at re:Invent 2018. (GeekWire Photo / Tom Krazit) LAS VEGAS – Anyone who has built a data center or cloud service ...

Amazon is going after hosting and virtual private server companies with its latest low-end cloud offering. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Nov. 30, 2016 at 5:33 p.m. PT ...

Think of the cloud as a disk drive that is owned by a company like Google or Apple, which stores all of your files in a remote location - typically at a server farm.

In March 2006 Amazon launched its first cloud-based service as part of its Amazon Web Services, or AWS. Initially, Amazon just planned to build a platform to help other companies set up online shops.

Amazon Web Services issued a blog post on Thursday providing some more details of why the company needs to reboot up to 10% of its cloud servers in the coming days, and it doesn’t have anything ...

Amazon has one of the biggest cloud servers around — one utilized by Netflix and other big streaming services — so gamers won’t have to worry about stuttering or ... Amazon, like Google, ...