Rentable Computing
Another indication that the future of computing is appliance oriented, Amazon S3… Building a Telco for only $0.15 per hour:
Your company doesn’t need to invest in a server farm to crunch numbers (example – monthly CDR conversions to customer bills), you can now via Amazon have Amazon S3 take your stored CDRs and send them to Amazon’s EC2 service (this is free…Amazon doesn’t care if this transfer of data is multi-terabytes…it’s still free) and EC2 will do the number crunching to generate your monthly customer bills.
From Amazon Web Services Blog.
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