Welcome to the developerWorks Cloud Computing Resource
Center. Cloud computing provides a way to develop applications in a
virtual environment, where computing capacity, bandwidth,
storage, security and reliability aren't issues - you don't need
to install the software on your own system. In a virtual
computing environment, you can develop, deploy, and manage
applications, paying only for the time and capacity you use, while
scaling up or down to accommodate changing needs or business
requirements.
IBM has partnered with Amazon Web Services to give you access to IBM
software products in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
virtual environment. This is product-level code, with all
features and options enabled.
Several options are available to get you started using IBM platform
technologies in the Amazon EC2 environment. You can bring your own
IBM licenses to Amazon EC2, utilize development Amazon Machine Images
(for ISVs only), or leverage the
production-ready Amazon EC2 running IBM service.
Read more about each of those options.
Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are available for the following IBM products:
