One, the Executive Office of the President (EOP) has an office called the Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP, which heads up the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) ( [link] ). Second, Congress has passed the related America COMPETES Act of 2007, where COMPETES is (believe it or not) an acronym for Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science. Sylvester Reyes (D-TX), which is the STEM Promotion Act of 2007. Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr.

The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates. S3. As I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today. The EC2 is very similar to having a Linux box in a colocation facility.

Amazon Web Services provides entrepreneurs with the ability to scale their business with access to Amazon's robust infrastructure and technological resources via services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Amazon Webservices is hosting a The Start-Up Project event in Santa Monica on October 23rd, 2-7pm. Utilizing AWS' solutions, you can compete on ideas -- not resources -- and turn your idea into a profitable business.