Using the EC2 API is straightforward, but to make life even simpler Chris Richardson has posted a Groovy framework that can launch MySQL, Apache HTTP Server, a set of Tomcat instances and JMeter ...

Hewlett-Packard's decision not to support Amazon Web Services EC2 application programming interface (API) in the HP enterprise-grade public cloud is in response to demand from customers ...

As of this week, Cloudscaling, now part of EMC, has made available a “drop-in” replacement for the existing OpenStack Nova EC2 API. Nova, OpenStack’s compute module, already offered a degree ...

EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). EC2 instances are the servers on which you run your workload. Although you use a Web interface or API call to provision the servers and bring them into your collection ...

For example, if Quantum is a critical component of your OpenStack environment, how do you expose that through the EC2 API? There's a significant conceptual mismatch between Quantum and VPC.

Competitors such as VMware have pointed out that the EC2 API is proprietary, even if Amazon allows its reuse in projects like Eucalyptus.

EC2 API calls that do not involve EBS resources in the affected Availability Zone are now seeing significantly reduced failures and latency and are continuing to recover.

EC2 API calls that do not involve EBS resources in the affected Availability Zone are now seeing significantly reduced failures and latency and are continuing to recover.