Amazon announced Thursday general availability of its Elastic Compute Cloud, part of the Internet retailer’s Web service offerings. Launched in beta 26 months ago, the service provides a resizable compute capacity to businesses with varying server needs. “The appealing thing about EC2 is that instead of buying a server, you pay for it by the hour. That’s great if your need for servers goes up and down or is temporary. If you’re going to run servers steady all year, it is less appealing to have a different way of paying for it,” said Frank Gillett, a Forrester Research analyst.
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Amazon's Cloud Services Move Out of Beta's Shadow
Posted by: Walaika Haskins October 24, 2008 01:26 PMAmazon announced Thursday general availability of its Elastic Compute Cloud, part of the Internet retailer’s Web service offerings. Launched in beta 26 months ago, the service provides a resizable compute capacity to businesses with varying server needs. “The appealing thing about EC2 is that instead of buying a server, you pay for it by the hour. That’s great if your need for servers goes up and down or is temporary. If you’re going to run servers steady all year, it is less appealing to have a different way of paying for it,” said Frank Gillett, a Forrester Research analyst.