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Amazon's Linux cloud computing out of beta, joined by Windows

 
A central part of Amazon's online computing foundation is growing up. The Elastic Compute Cloud , a service that gives customers on-demand access to Linux servers, is now out of beta testing, said Jeff Barr, evangelist for the collection of online options collectively called Amazon Web Services. "Amazon EC2 is ... Originally posted at Webware (link)

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