Originally Posted by webmasterchecks

i just heard about it recently. amazon and some other big names are behind this and its a big push and makes sense.

here is the concept for the layman. whether a server or a home computer, you just have a way to connect to a main bank of thousands of servers, and you just pay for exact what/the cycles, bw, you use.

ie rather than have to have a network of 1000 servers, you just have a few that hold your backup network and the "cloud" serves the rest. all the content storage and bandwidth privisioning is done off of the cloud.

lets say your doing content encoding and need 20 servers for a big job/order you need to get out, rather than have to purchase 20 computers to accomidate this large order, the cloud gives me all the power/processing i need when. saves me a ton of dough

surprised not many more people have been talking about this