The Cult of Gary

Part of the application I’m working on right now can take advantage of grid (as in chunking up jobs and distributing them to work nodes). I’ve spent my day getting EC2 and Sun Grid Engine to work together. It was a long and hard battle, but I prevailed.
The crux of the problem is DNS. Out [...]

It looks like Amazon is responding to AppEngine with fire and motion. There were two more announcements this morning that I think are big:

Premium Support for the Web Services. I’m not currently in the market for support (we’re not live at this point and I haven’t run into any problems the forums or google couldn’t solve), but [...]