http://live.pirillo.com/ – Most people don’t realize that Amazon has been a pioneer in the web services frontier: they have services which developers can interact with to help develop applications.

S3 – the Simple Storage Service – is an expandable storage service which allows other websites to offload their storage needs to S3. So, websites can store images, videos, and other files which cost a large amount of money to store and transmit this data.

EC2 – the Elastic Computing Cloud – allows websites to offload computing needs, rather than storage needs. So, if your website gets posted to Digg, the spike in traffic can be accommodated, rather than slowing to a crawl due to a lack of computing power.

While both S3 and EC2 provide different features to developers, they offer the same basic service: being able to augment costly services (bandwidth, storage, and computing cycles) at a "pay as you need it" rate.

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