In all honesty, if you have ever wondered what to do about the cycles and storage that went unused or underused in your datacenters (and the effect of said on o

In all honesty, if you have ever wondered what to do about the cycles and storage that went unused or underused in your datacenters (and the effect of said on operating profit and loss), I have to wonder who wouldn't have come up with it eventually. Amazon came up with a way to rent supercomputing facilities to people outside of academia, and continue to refine the offerings. I'm a little surprised it took this long, but that could just be a reflection of Amazon being the first to get it mostly-right for a maturing market. I'd be more interested in their thought process in terms of "OK, we can offer this, but it's too risky to offer that, and a waste of time to implement that..." That could be enlightening.