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Cutting costs with pay-as-you-go servers Video icon

David Berlind ZDNet.com

Published: 08 Nov 2007 15:10 GMT

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ZDNet.com's David Berlind discusses the cost benefits of outsourcing servers to Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), a pay-as-you-go service that allows you to control servers virtually through APIs.

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