Amazon announces the Elastic Compute Cluster

Thursday, August 24. 2006

Amazon announces the Elastic Compute Cluster

Amazon has just announced their Elastic Compute Cluster (EC2) which does for application hosting what their S3 did for storage. Basically, this allows you to run your applications on their servers and increase or decrease the available processing power as needed.

Here's a sample Ruby on Rails application running on EC2 along with some background information from its creator.

Some more information from Less is Better

Posted by Mike Bowler in Technology at 13:41

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