In Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are the mechanism that makes it possible to create Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) virtual machine (VM) instances. An AMI is ...

Brien Posey shows how to create a cloud-based Active Directory, and how to join an AWS virtual machine instance to the Active Directory environment that's been created.

Nick Hardiman shows you the steps to taking a snapshot of your Amazon Machine Image and launching a new VM from it to build in redundancy for your service.

The move to AWS is enabling many organizations to adopt a more agile, iterative application development methodology. In so doing, developers and their workloads need rapid, oftentimes automated, yet ...