The Amazon EC2 Limited Beta is Currently Full

For a while now, I want to test Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now that I have some free time (May 1st is a National Holiday here in Belgium, I decided to give it a try. I would like to run an installation of Drupal on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) just to see what it does.

I followed the Getting Started Guide, so I subscribed for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). I entered my credit card number and subscribed.

Then I tried to subscribe for EC2, but I got this message: “The Amazon EC2 Limited Beta is Currently Full. We will enable you when we can accommodate additional users.”

Hmmm… I’ll have to wait a while. Seems there is some buzz around S3 and EC2 at the moment…