Amazon EC2: Wow!

I was planning on doing something else this morning but, when I heard that Amazon had dropped the other shoe -- adding a metered virtual server farm called EC2 to the metered storage cloud called S3, I couldn't resist. Here's a quick demo:

In case you can't play the screencast, it shows this little Python app running identically in a virtual instance on EC2.

Wow.


Former URL: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/08/24.html#a1513