Cloud computing in action

Using the Web as a platform? Not having to build an entire ecosystem of infrastructure protocols in order to utilize another organization’s/company’s resources (by paying for it of course)? Living the distributed, large-scale computing dream without having to build your own infrastructure? How, why didn’t anyone tell this to the Grid community long time ago? Oh wait! 🙂

Animoto‘s scaling up story through the use of Amazon’s Web Services is a great one!