Got an Hour? Create a Server in the Cloud

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From the “keep­ing up with tech­nol­ogy” depart­ment comes this: Got an Hour? Create a Server in the Cloud — ReadWriteWeb:

Dave Winer yes­ter­day announced EC2 for Poets, a step-​​by-​​step guide to help you cre­ate a server on Amazon’s EC2. His how-​​to is so easy to under­stand that we had our own server up and run­ning within the hour. Sure, it may not seem like much that this fairly unin­ter­est­ing page is sit­ting out there some­where, but for this writer, it was an amaz­ing coup.

Dave Winer wrote the guide, whose work­ing title was “EC2 for Poets”:

The goal is to make cloud com­put­ing less mys­te­ri­ous by help­ing peo­ple through the process of set­ting up a server on Amazon EC2. The title derives from a class that was offered at the University of Wisconsin, when I was a grad stu­dent there, called Computer Science for Poets.

I loved the idea then, and still do. Engineers some­times mys­tify what they do, as a form of job secu­rity. I pre­fer to make light of it, so more peo­ple will be tempted to give it a try. It was easy for me, why shouldn’t it be easy for everyone? :-)

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