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Amazon Beefs Up Its Cloud Ahead of MS Announcement

Posted by kdawson on from the hey-you-get-offa-my dept.

Amazon has announced several major improvements to its EC2 service for cloud computing. The service is now in production (no longer beta); it offers a service-level agreement; and Windows and SQL Server are available in beta form. ZDNet points out that all this news is intended to take some wind out of Microsoft's sails as MS is expected to introduce its own cloud services next week at its Professional Developers Conference.

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  1. What is it? by Paralizer · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What exactly is "cloud computing"?

    I've read several articles and websites and still don't understand what the hell this mysterious new "cloud computing" thing is.

    It can't just be me, can it?