Amazon Web Services
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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One Comment
Steven Livingstone
July 13th, 2007
at 8:17am
Cool – we have Jeff Barr from Amazon coming to talk about AWS in 2 weeks, so i have added this to let others coming to the event to watch it!
http://eventful.com/events/E0-001-005252664-9