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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Sim-OnDemand - personal virtual world server, OpenSim on EC2

Idea:Sim-OnDemand - Personal Virtual World Server on Demand, on pay only for what you use billing.
Execution: Use the resource and bandwidth abundant Amazon EC2 infrastructure to deliver OpenSim on EC2 infrastructure. OpenSim opensource software packaged as ready to use Amazon Machine Image. The Sim-OnDemand comes with a GUI based launcher, making it easy for non-geeks to make use of Awesome Amazon infrastructure. No need to know Amazon API to use it.
Profit: The Amazon billing model of pay only for what you use and pass-through billing via DevPay are used to make it profitable for the user, publisher as well as Amazon.