IBM announced February 11th 2009 a new agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., to deliver IBM's market leading software to clients and developers.

The new "pay-as-you-go" model provides clients with access to development and production instances of IBM DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, WebSphere Portal, Lotus Web Content Management, WebSphere sMash and Novell's SUSE Linux operating system software in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) environment, providing a comprehensive portfolio of products available on AWS.

Businesses today are looking for ways to quickly build, deploy and take advantage of the flexibility that cloud computing environments can bring. This is challenging for organizations that are constrained by limited resources, technical skills and capital, as they look to their IT infrastructure to help them gain a competitive advantage.

IBM and Amazon Web Services are helping to address these challenges by making it easier for software developers to build solutions based on open standards and backed up by the necessary technical resources to help simplify the process.

The IBM software images for full production running in Amazon EC2 will be launched in beta in the coming months, with pricing to be announced. All developers and customers will have the operational capability to run development and production instances of IBM software for an hourly price per instance.

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http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/26673.wss

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0473370.htm

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/gbowerman?entry=informix_cloud_computing_with_amazon

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/im/ids/ec2.html?S_TACT=105AGX28&S_CMP=DLMAIN