Utility computing is getting more and more interesting for scalable webhosting. So far Amazon EC2 only had one instance type with 1.7 GB RAM, 160 GB HD, 32-bit platform and $0.10 per instance hour. Now there are two new Amazon EC2 instance type, both 64-bit platform and with significantly more power:
Large instance (new):
7.5 GB RAM, 850 GB HD, four times more computing performance, $0.40 per instance hour
Extra large instance (new):
15 GB RAM, 1690 GB HD, eight times more computing performance, $0.80 per instance hour
I am working right now on some Erlang tools to simplify web application hosting on utility computing infrastructure and look forward to get my hands dirty on this new EC2 instances !
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Go for it man! :)
The Rails crowd is already working on it (http://ec2onrails.rubyforge.org/) and it would be nice to see some similar work with Erlang. :)
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