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Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services, Part 3: Servers on Demand With EC2

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Overview In this paper, learn about cloud computing using Amazon Web Services. Explore how the services provide a compelling alternative for architecting and building scalable, reliable applications. This paper introduces the user to the virtual servers provided by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Learn how EC2 can help to configure the applications' computing requirements on the fly and adjust capacity based on demand.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Cloud Computing

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