Yea! I finally made it into Amazon’s EC2 beta. EC2 allows users to “…use web service interfaces to requisition machines for use, load them with your custom application environment, manage your network’s access permissions, and run your image using as many or few systems as you desire“. I don’t know what I’ll do with this exactly, but I think it will be interesting/fun to figure it out.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:24 am
[...] I just learned from Julio about Amazon’s next major move called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) - Limited Beta. You know about Amazon’s entery into Online Data Storage right? Smugmug pays them $27,000 a month as a storage utility, it’s a pay as you go model. [...]