Amazon EC2 Open To All

An anonymous reader writes "Amazon just announced that the beta program for their EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) service is now open to all developers. They have also added new instance types. It appears that you can now get the equivalent of an 8-core machine. Is cloud computing for the masses finally here?"

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[User 956]

Is cloud computing for the masses finally here?

It was already here. [slashdot.org]

10 or 25 man instance?

[UberHoser]

"new instance types". AWESOME ! Finally some sweet sweet pally loot drops !

Re:Amazing stuff

[Applekid]

can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?

Yep, I think they call it a hurricane.

So that's who owns the Storm virus.

[Remus Shepherd]

It all makes perfect sense now. Amazon creates the Storm virus botnet. Then it sells computing space. Anyone who tries to compete with them is shutdown by DDSes from the botnet. Amazon ends up owning the entire internet, and leasing it out for profit with suggestions on books about being a good repressed peasant.

It's like some bizarre take on DC comic's 'Amazons Attack!', only with slightly more porn.

$126,934.34

[clarkkent09]

That is the cost to the economy of all the slashdot users having to waste a minute of their workday to google "Elastic Compute Cloud" because the editor couldn't be bothered to put one sentence in the summary. Yes, I worked it out.

Thanks kdawson

You seem to know a lot about this stuff

[megaditto]

Can you confirm that these two are not related?

Storm Worm Botnet Partitions May Be Up For Sale [slashdot.org]
Amazon EC2 Open To All [slashdot.org]

Re:Is cloud computing for the masses finally here?

[Jaxoreth]

With this you could script your web site to automatically start up instances on EC2

That's awesome. You can handle a Web request by booting Linux on EC2 and running Apache.

Though it would probably be more efficient to just use a CGI kernel module.

Re:Is cloud computing for the masses finally here?

[QuickFox]

Are their any competitors that you'd recomend?

Sorry to be a pedant but I think you meant "Our their any competitors".