Not a peep?
It is the first commercially usable utility/grid computing [link|http://overstimulate.com/articles/2006/08/24/amazon-does-it-again.html|service].
Cycles by the hour. Need a rendering farm for a month (or want to crack a key)? Load em up and roll em.
I wonder why a retailer offered it instead of one of the [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1681136,00.asp|computer] [link|http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=206|companies] that just [link|http://java.sun.com/javaee/|flap their lips] about how they know all about it? Maybe they lack basic [link|http://www.amazon.com|experience] in actually [link|http://google.com|scaling] computing power?