Amazon announced a limited beta test of a new on line utility computing service. For $0.10/CPU hour, you can setup and run any number of virtual servers. That works out at $876 per CPU year. That's a bit more than you'd pay for a dedicated server, but the cool thing is that you can (at least in theory) have 1000 servers one day when you need them, and none the next. I wonder how many real servers they have at their disposal.
Kevin Werbach has an article about it here.
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