Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:38:25 GMT  <== Computers ==> 

Amazon.com - I got an invitation to the beta of Amazon's new service the other day, but ignored it since I didn't have a use for a virtual computer. This page describes the service, and has links to detailed documentation. $0.10 / hour of computer run-time. That's $72 / month. Plus S3 charges for storage and bandwidth. Kule. [wes]

You have complete control of your instances. You have root access to each one, and you can interact with them as you would any machine. Each instance predictably provides the equivalent of a system with a 1.7Ghz Xeon CPU, 1.75GB of RAM, 160GB of local disk, and 250Mb/s of network bandwidth.

There's an EC2 Forum. Here's a simple Ruby-on-rails site running on a virtual computer.

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