Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud vs DriveMaker
A side-by-side look at Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and DriveMaker. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon EC2 is a cloud computing service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It allows users to launch virtual server instances that run on Amazon's infrastructure. EC2 enables scalable deployment of applications by providing a web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image to configure a virtual machine.
DriveMaker
DriveMaker is a hard drive cloning and disk imaging utility for Windows. It allows users to quickly and easily clone hard drives or create full system backups for recovery or migration purposes. Key features include sector-by-sector drive cloning, compression and encryption of disk images, and scheduling of periodic backups.