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 ...

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 is a big hassle for customers---like Quora, Foursquare and Hootsuite, which have bet on Amazon to host their services. For Amazon Web Services, the outages may raise questions. AWS is ...

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, ...