In case you missed it, Amazon announced last Thursday an impressive list of features:

• EC2 for Windows (with/without SQL server), althrough they are some specifics which differs from the Linux version; more information on RightScale blog post.
• Amazon EC2 is no more a beta with SLAs for Amazon EC2,
• Management console,
• Cloud Monitoring service,
• Load-balancing and automatic scaling features.

Also worth reading an interesting paper from The Economist on Cloud Computing.

Elastic Grid team will be present in early afternoon on December, 2nd in Paris at the Open World Forum for a panel titled Technological and economic breakthroughs: Challenge or opportunity for FLOSS?

Abstract:

What impacts will SAAS, Cloud Computing, Ambient Computing… have on FLOSS, and what challenges will they bring? Do the new technological and business model breakthroughs represent a threat or an opportunity for FLOSS?

We hope to see you there. Feel free to get in touch with us during/after the conferences.