Amazon EC2 for Windows
Check out Dave Winer’s adventures with a Windows box on Amazon EC2. It reminds me of Jerry Pournelle’s old Chaos Manor columns in Byte: real world narration of adventures in using new and interesting technology. That’s much better than the reworked press release you get in many articles these days. At $93/month for a basic Windows box EC2 is not exactly cheap, but the flexibility and on-demand scalability is intriguing.