EC2: Scalr
Since EC2 appears to be the topic of the week, its worth looking at Scalr. Scalr provides the “elastic” to enable EC2 to provide a dynamic cloud.
Google (BigTable) and Microsoft (SQL Server Data Services) both appear to be chasing Amazon (S3), but neither appear to be close to EC2 – curious given Microsoft’s Hyper-V push.
EC2 usage ideas: analytics, modeling and the classic Monte Carlo simulations. Apache Hadoop would also be interesting from a EC2 perspective.
Off topic:
- Silverlight User Group videos
- WPF – Conceptual Children
- Creating and Using Silverlight and WPF User Controls
Google App Engine has just been launched: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/07/google-jumps-head-first-into-web-services-with-google-app-engine/#comments