Every cloud has a silver lining…and it’s yours

Sunday, March 22, 2009  //  0 Comments  //  Asides, Cloud Computing, Emerging Trends

An interesting post and comments on ReadWriteWeb…

Dave Winer yesterday announced EC2 for Poets, a step-by-step guide to help you create a server on Amazon’s EC2. His how-to is so easy to understand that we had our own server up and running within the hour. Sure, it may not seem like much that this fairly uninteresting page is sitting out there somewhere, but for this writer, it was an amazing coup.

“It’s time to stop thinking about these servers as being things for geeks and start thinking about them as things for people with ideas,” Winer said in a podcast roadmap he created for this work. The technology available today is enabling anyone with even the slightest technical bent to get out there and create amazing new things; often taking the technology in directions than the company which created it could have ever imagined.

Here’s a link to the entire thread: Got an Hour? Create a Server in the Cloud.