Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud vs swap.com
A side-by-side look at Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and swap.com. 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.
swap.com
swap.com is an online marketplace that allows people to trade books, CDs, DVDs, video games and more with each other. Users list the items they want to swap and browse listings posted by others. When two users agree to trade items, swap.com facilitates the secure transaction.