Europe Gets More Amazon Cloud Access

• Amazon today has announced they will broaden their Amazon EC2 virtual storage service to include European markets. Statements:

“With today’s launch, European developers and businesses with European customers can take advantage of the latest features for Amazon EC2 including multiple Availability Zones, Elastic IP addresses, and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). In the near future, Amazon EC2 will also add support for Windows Server and SQL Server in the EU which is a new feature that was recently introduced on Amazon EC2 in the U.S.”

• What’s so great about EC2? Well, EC2 users rent servers and pay per instance-hour of power consumed. Basically, users only pay for how much they use as opposed to trying to guess if you have too little or too much storage. In the US, an instance-hour costs around $0.10. The price will be equivalent to $0.13 in Europe.
• This is good news for Europan startups looking to flex the power they uses. Companies like Pownce and Justin.tv are both using EC2 here in the US. We will see reports soon what kind of adoption EC2 will receive in Europe. TC

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