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White Paper on 'Cloud Architectures' and Best Practices of Amazon S3, EC2, SimpleDB, SQS
New White paper from Amazon that discusses best practices for building applications in the Cloud:
“Cloud Architectures are Services-Oriented Architectures that are designed to use On-demand infrastructure more effectively. Applications built on Cloud Architectures are such that the underlying computing infrastructure is used only when it is needed (for example to process a user request), draw the necessary resources on-demand (like compute servers or storage), perform a specific job, then relinquish the unneeded resources after the job is done. While in operation the application scales up or down elastically based on actual need for resources. Everything is automated and operates without any human intervention.”