Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon.com explains cloud computing in almost one sentence. He tells how he found his way to Amazon. And as he does not like the future, he reflects about the past and credit cards… 
Amazon Web Services provides startups with most flexible hosting opportunities, sharing their rich experiences and cloud infrastructure.
Duration : 0:4:43
Part I – demo of how to bring up an EC2 image with Elasticfox, and then connect to it using SSH.
Duration : 0:5:58
This short demo walks you through the process of creating a new Cloud Server in the Rackspace Cloud control panel.
Duration : 0:7:44
Jean-Paul Bauer of KnowledgeTree presents “Cloud Computing with Persistent Data: Pushing the Envelope of Amazon Web Services” at OSCon 2008. From the official conference description at http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3174 :
KnowledgeTreeLive is a novel SaaS document management application built using the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazons Simple Storage Service and rPaths Virtual Appliance technologies. KnowledgeTreeLive leverages the popular open source KnowledgeTree application. The combination of cloud computing, virtual appliances, and other open source technologies allowed for the speedy implementation of the on-demand offering, without requiring significant changes to the KnowledgeTree architecture and in a very cost and resource effective manner.
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The talk will be targeted at users who have a solid background in web application hosting environments on the Apache/MySQL/PHP stack (or similar) but are still new to utilizing Amazon Web Services.
Duration : 0:26:11
Tyler Newton of Catalyst Investors asks Phil Spencer, CEO of dedicated and managed hosting company Codero, whether he viewed third party cloud computing infrastructure providers like Amazon as a direct or tangential threat to the managed hosting business. (from the 2009 Catalyst Investors Annual Meeting)
Duration : 0:2:6
This tutorial walks you through the steps of setting up your Linux Cloud Server, creating an administrative user, setting up iptables and securing a few other aspects. This preps your Cloud Server in advance of installing any application stacks.
Duration : 0:19:59