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Amazon Betas 'Elastic' Grid Computing Service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bouncy-bouncy dept.

RebornData writes "I receieved an e-mail this morning inviting me to participate in a limited beta of Amazon EC2: the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. It's a grid computing service that allows you to create and upload your own Linux-based machine images and run them in Amazon's system, starting at $.10 per "instance hour" (each machine instance being equivalent to a 1.7GHz Xeon with 1.75GB of RAM, and 160GB disk). You can use their tools to create and start new instances dynamically to meet whatever your particular capacity needs are at any given moment. Fedora Core 3 and 4 are explicitly supported, but any distro based on the 2.6 kernel should work. The service documentation provides more technical details. Unfortunately, it appears that the beta is limited to existing Amazon S3 users, and is already full."

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  1. Say... by Doctor+Memory · · Score: 3, Funny
    Amazon EC2: the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
    This isn't one of those wearable computers, is it? If so, I hope they're being very choosy about who they "let into the beta"... <shudder/>
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    Just junk food for thought...
  2. I use Gentoo... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Could I buy some server time to get my initial compile to under a week?

  3. Obligatory Link? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Where's the obligatory link to where Barnes & Noble has it for cheaper?