So Amazon EC2 registration is open again. Interesting … I’ve done colocation and dedicated hosting, time to do elastic cloud computing I guess. 
The upsides with both dedicated hosting and EC2 are:
- no data center to provision and manage
- just whip out your credit card when you need to expand
With EC2, you can expand and contract even more easily than dedicated hosting.
The downsides with EC2 that I’ve seen mentioned include:
- lack of local persistent storage
- lack of a permanent IP address
- pricing is still a little more than dedicated hosting.
Amazon EC2 Release: Introducing New Instance Types
Forum: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Beta)
I Hate Cubicle Blog with articles on EC2
Slashdot: Amazon EC2 Open To All
Cleversafe updates distributed storage idea
firstserv.com: Oracle 10g Shared Hosting
bluereef.net: Oracle 8i Shared Hosting
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