Amazon.com's EC2, Part Two
Setting up an EC2 account only takes a few moments of time, and the documentation from Amazon is great. They have a great get started guide, which is located here. There is also a good video for Windows users.EC2 is a service built on Amazon.com's Sun Grid, using Xen (x86) instances, and is capable of running Linux and Windows (using emulation). Access to the grid is through Amazon's set of Java tools, or through a web API. There are also some 3rd party tools that are beginning to appear to ease the administration and deployment of the EC2 and S3 products, including AWS Console.
After using EC2 for a few weeks, it appears to live up to all of the hype, even as a Beta product. Transfers to and from EC2 were extremely fast, in many cases I was able to achieve a consistent 400K/second (more than 2 full T1's). The images that I have launched have also been very fast when compiling programs, and running them.
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