Now you can have that huge data center for little cash
If you have had that idea for a great startup but worried about getting all the hardware you needed to support it with little funds, Amazon seems to have your solution. Their Elastic Compute Cloud (in beta) seems to provide you will great flexibilty to scale your application up as you need it. A basic setup is fairly comparable to a dedicated hosting solution at less than $100 a month for starters. However the real benefit comes when you need to scale that one box solution into 3 machines, then up to several more machines. Imagine starting with your next idea for a Digg/Reddit/Whatever killer and scaled it up as demand grew, and hopefully the funds or revenue grew with it.
Ok, so they have a really cool grid-type hosting solution, but you also can pair that with their S3 offering, which stands for Simple Storage Solution. For very little money — .15 a gig per month for storage and .20 a gig per month for bandwidth — you can have quite a data array.
They offer a couple of other solutions as well such as an eCommerce platform and a message queue service. The eCommerce basically allows you to set up a storefront for their product offerings, but the message queue might be handy for some distributed computing.
This could really good for fund-strapped startups. I have had a couple of ideas myself, but never got passed that idea stage because I knew it would require hardware that I couldn’t get. I also wanted to build said applications with Java, but was worried about scalability with some hosting solutions out there which lead me to think about going to a PHP solution, but again the potential for needing funds to get big hardware kept me from persuing any of those ideas.
Now, if Google would get into this game leveraging their huge infrastructure and start some competition, we would all win!
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