Amazon as a whole has revenue of $48B (and a reaaaallly crappy profit margin - $48B in total Amazon sales, $600 million in net income). I imagine EC2 is a low-margin business - and I still wonder why

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bandwidth a month will cost you $600/year from Amazon in bandwidth alone.

Some already are. And if some of the rumors about Amazon are true, the business models of most LET/LEB hosts will be dead in 1-2 years anyway.

An alternate to rolling your own is to look at Amazon's SimpleDB, DynamoDB, MongoHQ, etc. Heck, Amazon SimpleDB will give you 1GB free forever.

For simplicity's sake, we'll go with the Amazon cracker. We have 34 more characters, so the time to crack would be 49*2^34 minutes = 1.6 million years.

No, not really. I can usually push data up to Amazon S3 on the West Coast US at 1.5MB/s. If you try a local ISP mirror you will get at least 20mbit and up to 100mbit on those in the same city.

Fast too. A month ago WD 1TB RE4's were running around 200-250, I just nabbed some for 149+S&H off Amazon Prime, Newegg has them in stock, but I'm a Amazon Prime member so shipping is way che

I just signed-up to the AWS free tier offer. I now have a 600 Mb RAM VPS, free for one full year, at the Singapore location. To my knowledge, Amazon is the only free Singapore (or Tokio) LEB offer at

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Using CloudFlare, we can protect websites from a range of online threats from spammers to SQL injection to DDOS, can hide server IP etc. Are those possible with Amazon Route 53?

dont' forget there's the 1 year free tier for new users too: aws.amazon.com/free

Thanks got the code but haven't tried using it yet I guess amazon dont do windows lebs :P

I don't know if you have seen this but here is a $50 credit for Windows EC2 instances. http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/global-solution-providers/microsoft/aprilcredit/

they also using amazon their ip : 204.236.229.205

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For SA, suppose you're mentioning South America, go with Amazon EC2, that's the only one I've seen.

http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-DL-DVI-I-SL-DVI-D-PCI-Express-100312-3SR/dp/B0055Y66A4

Also how can you compare your prices to Amazon for the cloud? You don't even have cloud hosting the way Amazon has...

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