With a reasonable price, Amazon’s Web Services are well-suited for business systems with intermittent or transient processing needs, tester Rick Grehan found, and if the offering should fail to attract customers it won’t be for a lack of information and tools.“You can employ an army of virtual machines, store terabytes of data, or establish an Internet-wide message queue, and you will only pay Amazon for the resources you consume,” Grehan explains in Diving deep into Amazon Web services. So if your business needs a cluster of CPUs and several hundred gigabytes of storage to be available, say, every Wednesday for weekly processing, you don’t have to keep a room full of servers sitting idly around six days a week.” But the real question is whether or not customers will bite on AWS? “Whether the notion of Amazon’s ‘rentable infrastructure’ catches on is unknown. Its failure (should it fail) will not be for lack of information and tools.” Software Development