Playing with EC2
Once upon a time, I worked on the European Space Agency's Beagle2 probe which was supposed to land on Mars. Well, this isn't a story about that. That would be too sad.
But I do remember telling my brother that for the first few weeks of the project, I was "playing" with the prototype board trying to get it to run some Ada 83 programs. He started laughing at me and I asked why.
"Playing with something that costs millions of pounds - doesn't sound right to me."
But I explained to him that the only way to learn something is to have a play with it. That's what kids do and sometimes as adults we forget that it's not just one way to learn but the best way to learn.
Here's an opportunity to find out what all the fuss is about over the Amazon Web Services, specifically EC2. I have written an article called Getting Started with EC2 so just go over there and have a play.
And the funny thing is, it's just so easy, it's almost childsplay.
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