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How To: Getting Started with EC2 (for beginners)
- PStamatiou 19y agoand for those interested, I just got my copy of O'Reilly "Programming Amazon Web Services" and it looks pretty comprehensive.
- kirubakaran 19y agoIf you are a Python programmer, be sure to read this: http://jimmyg.org/2007/09/01/amazon-ec2-for-people-who-prefer-debian-and-python-over-fedora-and-java/ http://jimmyg.org/2007/09/01/amazon-ec2-for-people-who-prefe...
- slapshot 19y agoGreat post in that EC2 is essentially a low-risk way for a computation-heavy startup to scale without having to buy thousands of dollars of servers plus co-location fees. The tradeoff is that it's more expensive per CPU cycle, but the ability to scale without risk is fantastic.
- jasonlbaptiste 19y agowow, awesome! seriously, just give this guy ++ on an infinite loop :-P
- jdunck 19y agoSimilar coverage, a bit dated now, but I think clearer: http://overstimulate.com/articles/2006/08/24/amazon-does-it-again http://overstimulate.com/articles/2006/08/24/amazon-does-it-...