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            Amazon EC2 - changing the game
          
          
            
            Jan 21, 2008
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          Over the past two weeks I’ve spent some time with friends who are investigating Amazon’s EC2 service. I must say that I’m very impressed. Essentially the service allows you to run a virtual computer. You can then add and remove horsepower via web service calls, and all you pay for is the uptime per hour, and bandwidth. I believe the service is either running Xen or is based off of it. Read more...