Computing in the Clouds

Amazon is now offering it's EC2 web services as reported in this Wired article. This is an amazing development as my friend Burke Allen tells me. It brings the cost of deploying an infinite number of server instances down to a ridiculous cost and you only pay for what you use.

Combine this with the predefined open source stacks provided by Bitnami and complex application installations of Wordpress, Moodle, and Drupal suddenly become childs play.