Posts tagged “cloud computing”

BitTorrent isn't just piracy infrastructure: it's a glimpse of data's future. The "real cloud" is content stored in the network itself, perpetually in transit, owned by no one. This phase-change from liquid to solid data is being held back by legal stigma, but not for long.

My theory: Amazon's spot instances, launched December 12th, are filling EC2 to capacity by design. The timing matches perfectly with Cloudkick's latency graphs. Spot instances essentially guarantee full utilization at any price point. Anyone have EC2 spot price history to confirm this?