Amazon EC2 and WebSphere Integration

IBM has released Amazon Machine Instances (AMI's) for the WebSpher Portal V6.1 and Lotus Web Content Management. There is an AMI also available for WebSphere sMash V1.1. 

The AMI's allow the developers to develope portals using the Amazon Services. Idea is to utilise the existing investment that an organisation might have already made on applications that already hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS). 

Some of the area's where the Portal makes sense is

* developing self contained web sites

* aggregation on EC2 ( Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud)

* aggregation of robust  web services

Check out more details here.