Holy Smokes – Amazon is offering computing on demand. They have a new service called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and the company page describes it as a “web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.” This in tandem with the Amazon storage service, S3, makes the cost of development for web-based applications even lower. More thoughts to follow…
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