Red Hat announced the public beta of Amazon’s EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. While the features of Amazon EC2 are a very nice idea for the sysadmin side of the house, this is also a great benefit for developers.
For example, a distributed developer team can deploy a development infrastructure in the compute cloud. Put developer sandboxes, test harnesses, and release engineering entirely in EC2, only running what you need when you need it, then roll it over to production hosting.
Since this beta has just started, we don’t have any examples to highlight, but we’re looking. If you know of one, please send a letter to the editor.
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