Our focus over the past day has been to resolve the Windows Azure Compute service disruption.

FORBES: Connect

Yesterday, February 28th, 2012 at 5:45 PM PST Windows Azure operations became aware of an issue impacting the compute service in a number of regions.

FORBES: Connect

Oracle IaaS will also offer the option of an elastic compute capacity as a service, called Capacity on Demand.

FORBES: Oracle Cloud Success Triggers Oracle-Derangement Syndrome

They must sell public cloud compute IaaS as a stand-alone service, without the requirement to bundle it with managed hosting, application development, application maintenance or other outsourcing.

FORBES: Connect

If a customer decides to invoke compute capacity on demand, there is an extra service charge for that month.

FORBES: Oracle Cloud Success Triggers Oracle-Derangement Syndrome

How do you design a system that not only allows new compute resources to begin to operate as part of your service, but also folds in an up-to-date copy of the data your users and customers depend on?

FORBES: The Good News About Cloud Architecture: Everything Fails

Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.

ENGADGET: Kindle is the biggest selling item on Amazon, bests sliced bread