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I recently saw a great presentation about Amazon’s Web Services. They really have some great deployment tools.

I, and most other tech people I know, thought that the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) was just a place to send processes, like running algorithms etc. In reality it’s a place where you can set up virtual servers. You can take a pre-made linux image or make one yourself and then run as many as you want for $.10/hour (up to 20 at a time, until you talk to them).

I’m pretty excited to be using the EC2 for readme.com. I’m hoping for some big spikes in traffic once we launch and EC2 will handle that pretty well.

To get the site started I think we’re going to use Amazon’s product feed. I hope to bring more products into the fold and we grow, but they’re setup is so easy it’ll help us launch sooner rather than later.  Please let me know how you feel about this.