{"id":1589,"date":"2007-10-17T14:36:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T17:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2213"},"modified":"2010-05-08T17:19:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:19:09","slug":"deja-vu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/17\/deja-vu\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw this over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/browse.html?node=201590011\">Amazon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Start, terminate, and monitor as many instances of your AMI as needed, using the web service APIs.<\/p>\n<p>Pay for the instance-hours and bandwidth that you actually consume.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Amazon EC2 passes on to you the financial benefits of Amazon&#8217;s scale. You pay a very low rate for the compute capacity you actually consume.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>History repeats itself&#8230; this is very close to what we used to operate with in my mainframe days. You punched out a job control deck and ran a job that used a virtualized instance of the OS. Later on you&#8217;d get billed by so many seconds of actual CPU time, I\/O bandwidth, and storage. In fact, my M.Sc.-thesis-to-be (1975, I vaguely remember) was about implementing just such a billing system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw this over at Amazon: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. &#8230; Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. &#8230;Start, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","tag-history"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-pD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}