Trying out Amazon EC2 and S3

Registered an account and downloaded ElasticFox and S3Fox for Firefox and off I went into Amazon's offering in cloud computing...

By following some screencasts and sites I was able to start an instance of a Windows AMI and connected to it using Remote Desktop. Since it's a virtual machine, it feels no different from a real Windows machine. I could use the IE to connect to other sites, which means networking is ok. After 10 mins, I terminated the instance. Happy with the fact that now I have potentially more virtual machines at my disposal for whatever I want to do than ever. Provided I pay for them, that is...

I also tried S3. Using S3Fox, it was trivial to upload stuffs to it and access it from the web later.

Cloud computing is looking promising!