Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
It’s like renting computing servers. You can populate as many servers as you want in the order of minutes and you pay according to the computing time.
Tools
Documents and tutorials
- http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-getting-started-with-amazon-ec2
- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EC2StartersGuide
- http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonEC2/dg/2006-06-26/creating-an-ami.html - how to make your own ami?
- boto - A Python interface to Amazon Web Services
- http://pydroid.posterous.com/getting-distributed - An example using boto and execnet.
- http://blog.restbackup.com/how-to-use-amazon-ec2-as-your-desktop