By creating (linux based) virtual machines, either from scratch or based on prebuilt ones (web, app and database servers), you can quickly deploy on a pretty powerful machine (1.7Ghz Xeon CPU, 1.75GB of RAM, 160GB of local disk, and 250Mb/s of network bandwidth.) You can remotely start and stop instances of your image using web service calls (as well as standard unix shutdown) and you are only charged for the time the server is running (since you have a dedicated machine.
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