<story><title>$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/30000-core-cluster-built-on-amazon-ec2-cloud.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dholowiski</author><text>I wonder what kind of &apos;bad activity&apos; detection Amazon does, if any? Did they have to call Amazon ahead of time, just to warn them they were about to boot up &quot;3,809&quot; instances? If I tried to do that, would Amazon prevent it?&lt;p&gt;The reason I ask... how hard would it be to boot up, say 10,000 micro-instances (using a stolen credit card or AWS account) to be used for a DDOS? What do you have to do before red lights start appearing in the AWS NOC?</text></comment>
<story><title>$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/30000-core-cluster-built-on-amazon-ec2-cloud.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ericHosick</author><text>Amazon&apos;s EC2 technology is quite amazing (to me anyway). We&apos;ve been using their CloudFormation service. This has allowed us to create our entire server environment (rails/php, mysql, mongo, load balancer, route53, security groups, alarms, etc.) for different stacks (sandboxes, staging, production) with a few clicks.&lt;p&gt;&quot;Cycle combines several technologies to ease the process&quot; - 
Did that include Amazons CloudFormation services?</text></comment>