Well, I just got into the beta for Amazon’s EC2. I am pretty excited about it, as I have had some ideas about ETL and information quality that might be a nice fit for this architecture. While it isn’t distributed computing per se, it offers some very interesting opportunities around scalability, especially in working with data transformation.

I will try to get someting up and running this weekend. I am going to keep careful notes, and will try to add a step-by-step guide to help others get started. There is ample documentation on the AWS site, but I would like to do my part to make things a bit easier for newbies.

Links

• Getting Started With AWS — A step by step explanation of how to enroll and use the Amazon Web Services.
• Getting Started With S3 — My step by step walkthrough for setting up, connecting to, and using S3.
• Getting Started With EC2 — My step by step walkthrough for EC2.

Also, all of my postings are available in the AWS category, which will be updated regularly.

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