Cutting costs with pay-as-you-go servers

Summary: David Berlind discusses the cost benefits of outsourcing servers to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, a pay-as-you-go service that allows the control of servers virtually through APIs

By David Berlind | November 8, 2007 -- 15:10 GMT (07:10 PST)

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ZDNet.com's David Berlind discusses the cost benefits of outsourcing servers to Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), a pay-as-you-go service that allows you to control servers virtually through APIs.

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