Amazon's cloud spreads into content delivery

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Anonymous Coward

United States of A #

Posted Wednesday 19th November 2008 00:53 GMT

WTF I've heard US of A, USA, United States of America, but United States of A never.

Austin Modine

@anon #

Posted Wednesday 19th November 2008 00:59 GMT

Don't tread on me!

Mike Flugennock

I'm back in the... #

Posted Wednesday 19th November 2008 11:22 GMT

@ AC 11.18 23:59 GMT: Actually, these days, it's more like the USSA.

@ Austin Modine: Hey! You! Get offa' my cloud!

Sorry; El Reg has been reporting on "cloud computing" for so long without doing a Rolling Stones reference...somebody had to do it.

gabor

pricing by location #

Posted Wednesday 19th November 2008 11:25 GMT

great. that makes cost planning easy, and invoicing a treat to verify.

Anonymous Coward

Prices change daily? #

Posted Wednesday 19th November 2008 11:25 GMT

A pricing calendar no less, do prices change daily then? :) I'll assume you mean calculator.

Anonymous Coward

Poor mens CDN #

Posted Wednesday 19th November 2008 16:24 GMT

It's dirt cheap but you pay for what you get: plain web caching and some DNS routing. Low service level, no support, no streaming, no statistics. And setup is horribly difficult. CloudFront is the poor mens CDN!

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