My article “ Linux Amazon EC2 tutorial: How to set up an EC2 instance ” shows you how to set up Amazon Web Services’ compute service if you use Linux (specifically, Ubuntu Linux).

However, the new drop in the price of Windows On-Demand EC2 instances suggests that Amazon is at least partially moving away from “encouraging” customers to follow a reserved instance model.

Nick Hardiman shows you how to set up a secure connection to an Amazon EC2 machine using PuTTY and Pageant to handle your private key.

AWS announced the availability of new High Memory instances for Amazon EC2, offering up to 12 TB of memory today, scaling to 24 TB in 2019.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is dropping the price of Windows On-Demand EC2 instances up to 26 percent, which is another clear sign of the price wars in the cloud computing market.