Amazon Cloud Takes Reservations

Gregory T. Huang3/13/09

Amazon’s chief technology officer Werner Vogels said yesterday that Amazon Web Services is now letting customers reserve cloud-computing capacity on its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. Companies can reserve computing power for a fee, and receive a discount on the hourly rate (they still pay for just what they use). The move is viewed as an effort to appeal to a wider range of corporate customers, in particular, big companies.

Gregory T. Huang is Xconomy's National IT Editor and the Editor of Xconomy Boston. You can e-mail him at gthuang@xconomy.com, call him at 617-252-7323, or follow him on Twitter at @gthuang.