Amazon EC2 - any good?

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The web hosting thread below was started by Ultraspeed on 2010-02-15 09:31:37:

Hey guys

I’m part of the sales team for a managed hosting company, and I’m looking at a couple of potential prospects who are using Amazon EC2 to deliver "cloud" services.

What’s the difference between Amazon EC2 and the sort of hosting provided by a managed hosting company? Why would someone use Amazon instead of a hosting specialist, or vice versa?

>S

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