Apr

15

Exploring Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

This week I’ve been reading a great deal about Amazon EC2, a service which lets you rent servers from Amazon’s huge server farms from as little as 10 cents/hour ($73/month).

The principle behind EC2 is genius. You select which ‘AMI’ (linux image) you want to start your server with, then choose what spec you want.

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Feb

02

Amazon S3 – The future of all our storage needs?

Since I discovered Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service) I’ve been curious about it.

Firstly, it has a very unusual business model; offering unlimited amounts of storage and bandwidth, charging you for what you use.

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