Red Hat has introduced a new service in association with Amazon web services called Cloud computing. This is basically an on demand, hosted solution which provides you managed computing resources as a web service.
The cloud is basically a series of virtual servers powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux , which make use of the Amazon EC2 service.
When you run servers in a cloud, you have complete access to the server via secure network interfaces and can perform any configuration, management, or development tasks you would normally perform on a remotely accessible server.
As part of this service, Red Hat populates the cloud with virtual machine images which can be readily instantiated with one simple command line interface or via a Firefox extension. Once instantiated, you are able to access your server with standard utilities (such as SSH) from a client machine, add and remove any software and services you wish to perform, and transfer data to and from the servers. You have complete control.
This service is primarily targeted at developers, small businesses, IT infrastructure owners et al. For instance, you can use it to host your website if what you need is something more than a shared hosted solution but not exactly a dedicated server. Basically it is computing power provided on demand.
This service is currently at beta stage and is available at a starting price of $19 / month per customer plus $0.21 per hour for every deployed server, plus additional bandwidth and storage fees.
More details at Red Hat website.
