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The above are "public" AMIs produced by Amazon. Also available are "community" AMIs, which are customer-contributed and the security of their configurations is not guaranteed by Amazon. | |||
==Virtual data center== | |||
In early 2009, a customer could organize 1500 virtual appliances into a data center. A number of PaaS and SaaS clouds are known to run over it. | |||
==Competitors== | |||
Competition began about a year after EC2's launch, principally from existing [[managed hosting]] providers:<ref name=>{{citation | |||
| title = How credible is EC2’s competition? | |||
| url = http://blog.sharevm.com/tag/virtualization/page/2/ | |||
| journal = ShareVM Blog | |||
| date = 8 March 2009}}</ref> | |||
* Rackspace’s Mosso in February 2008 | |||
* Terremark’s cloud in June 2008 | |||
* AT&T’s cloud in August 2008 | |||
* An IBM supported service on EC2 in February 2009 | |||
* Savvis in February 2009 | |||
==References== | |||
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Revision as of 18:37, 20 March 2010
- See also: Cloud computing
With a start of operations in March 2006, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) allows customers was the first to market. It runs on the infrastructure that runs Amazon.com's electronic storefronts, both for Amazon itself and third parties.
EC2 allows virtual appliances to be built from choices among operating systems, data bases, web servers, etc. Amazon offers a variety of preconfigured stacks called Amazon Machine Images (AMI), such as:[1]
The above are "public" AMIs produced by Amazon. Also available are "community" AMIs, which are customer-contributed and the security of their configurations is not guaranteed by Amazon. Virtual data centerIn early 2009, a customer could organize 1500 virtual appliances into a data center. A number of PaaS and SaaS clouds are known to run over it. CompetitorsCompetition began about a year after EC2's launch, principally from existing managed hosting providers:[2]
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