Amazon Web Services (AWS) have introduced ‘Scheduled Reserved Instances’, which enables EC2 compute capacity to be reserved at a discounted price for use on a periodic basis. For example, a ...

The State Manager allows you to specify various actions that should be performed against an Amazon EC2 instance. You might, for example, add a file to the instance, change a registry key or take a ...

With AWS’s Instance Scheduler tool (a solution that enables customers to easily configure custom start and stop schedules for their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Relational Database ...

Brien Posey walks through the next steps involved in automating patch management for your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances.

With this new pricing tier, called Scheduled Reserved Instances, AWS users can reserve instances for pre-defined blocks of time on their own daily, weekly and monthly schedules.