Amazon introduces raw block storage
AMAZON has introduced its Elastic Block Store (EBS) for the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
The new independent storage feature allows users to easily create and backup raw block storage volumes via a simple snapshot to the Amazon Simple Storage Service.
According to Werner Vogels of Amazon, the volumes can be formatted with any file system or used directly with advanced applications such as high-end database engines. Vogels also noted that EBS could be utilised, "for long term backups, rollback strategies [and] volume re-creation purposes."
Paul Fisher, Manager of Technology for Wired.com explained that EBS was "the missing link" that would enable start-ups and large corporations "to conjure the resources they need to build any application possible."
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It looks like web hosting to me, is that what it is?
I read that as "Amazon introduces raw block sewage" and it got worse from there.

What? You want profound comments? hah!

I can just picture it. Instead of using torrents to distribute audio, video, and computer programs, people will use cloud computing. You'd pay using Paypal and then you'd go and download it from Amazon's servers. Once it was downloaded, you'd use a program and a password you'd been given to change it into the now illegally owned file. If one account got taken down, you'd start up another. People would start using identity theft just so they could get Amazon accounts, the real person wouldn't even necessarily have to worry about their credit rating suffering, because it would probably be easier for the impostor to pay the bill so that they could keep using the account.