The CLOUD computing buzz.. always sounded to me like another hosting infrastructure services that builds on XEN Virtualization services. What it makes more compelling is…. it facilitates on-demand/out-sourced datacenter that scales up and allows us to pay-as-you-go for used services. Couple of months ago, I had a chance to try out my own Amazon EC2 Web services account playing with creating/uploading AMIs and test-driving them for my hello world exercises – ofcourse I paid for it.

To my surprise, recently I came across this interesting news at Washington Post…highlighting Amazon: Hey Spammers, Get Off My Cloud !

Digging into the details, a bunch of spammers comfortably hosted on Amazon EC2 and using their infrastructure to initiate POrN spam and junk e-mail few of them with malware. More to the surprise, SPAMHAUS (An Anti-Spamware group) identified a bunch of Amazon EC2 IP addresses and flagged them on SPAMHAUS Policy Blocked Lists.

Buyers Beware:  Does it worth scaling out with Cloud computing without “Security” ?