Amazon, a giant in its industry, is introducing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Obviously a very anticipated launch, EC2 seems to be the next big swing in computer science and promises to be "a true virtual computing environment". Ok, now I'm by no stretch at all a genius, but I do credit myself with an adequate ability to figure things out and comprehend information. Unfortunately, I have been racking my brain trying to figure out exactly what this abstract idea called cloud computing is. Since about a week ago when I first read Andrew Fry's blog on the subject, I have been following feeds from Amazon and Microsoft about EC2, and still, I don't get it.
My jist is that it will at first be distributed for businesses. The convertion to the use of products like EC2 is at least partly motivated by the potential savings in overhead for IT departments. It will allow for a sort of pay as you go, or use rather, for network server availability (if that's the right way of saying it) rather than paying an upfront capital. Also, working in the cloud is suppose to up the any on reliability, speed and overall intelligence level and ability by a substantially large amount. Keep in mind, I'm still not completely sure of all this.
Anyway, trust me, if I could explain it all to you I would but it just hasn't sunk in for me yet. If anyone has read up on this at all and can shed some light I would love it! And trust me, as soon as I figure this out I'm sure you'll hear me talk more about it....
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