The battle for the .NET cloud begins
This isn't directly Silverlight related, but most Silverlight applications are going to have to get their data from somewhere and have some server side business logic, and I've been anxiously awaiting news on Microsoft's cloud computing platform as a back end for Silverlight applications.
For those not familiar with EC2,it stands for Elastic Compute Cloud, and it's probably the leader in cloud computing right now. It's a pay as you go service, and can go from a very small test instance all of the way up to a bunch of cores and 64 bit. Up until now, you couldn't, however, run .NET code in EC2. This is about to change.
I just received an email from Amazon about a new offering on their EC2 platform announcing their new support for Windows Server and SQL Server in EC2:
http://aws.amazon.com/windows/
So let the games begin! Competition is usually a good thing for the consumer, and hopefully Amazon and Microsoft will push each other to implement features we can all benefit from.