[Eug-lug] Amazon's interesting EC2 lets you run linux instances via a web service

[larry price]

Just looking at the docs they seem to be somewhat Fedora centric, but
instances can have a public IP (assigned by DHCP) and can run web
servers, so this goes squarely at the guts of most of the webhosting
providers.

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=84

But this is actually some pretty big news, because they have the power
and scale to offer this sort of thing at a functional level of
reliability this will make a lot of things possible that weren't
before.

here's a TechCrunch story that might it explain it better than I do.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/24/exclusive-amazon-readies-utility-computing-service/