An apparent billing snafu by Amazon Web Services left some customers drastically overcharged for their cloud usage. AWS customers reported their AWS charges had erroneously doubled or tripled in ...

A week ago, AWS announced that it would soon move to per-second billing for users of its EC2 service. It doesn't come as a huge surprise, then, that Google today announced a very similar move ...

"This is a big move which I suspect required a lot of back-end effort, but it's definitely the right move for AWS," he said. "Longer term the world will get used to per-millisecond billing anyway with ...