Re: Amazon to host public data sets in the cloud for free

Can this be used to have SPARQL endpoints with public date on the Amazon
cloud? That would be sweet :)
denny

Valentin Zacharias wrote:
> could this be a cool way to make great datasets such as the DBpedia, the
> YARS2 dataset, 'normal' Wikipedia etc. even better and wider available?
> 
> "AWS Hosted Public Data Sets provide a convenient way to share, access, and
> use public data within your Amazon EC2 environment. Select public data sets
> are hosted on AWS for free as an Amazon EBS snapshot. Any Amazon EC2
> customer can access this data by creating their own personal Amazon EBS
> volume from a publicly shared Amazon EBS public data set snapshot. They can
> then access, modify, and perform computation on these data sets directly
> using an Amazon EC2 instance and just pay for the compute and storage
> resources that they use."
> 
> (EBS=Elastic Block Store, like a harddisk in the cloud)
> 
> http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/, see also
> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_web_services_seeks_publ.php
> 
> 
> cu
> 
> valentin
>