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When the Kindle Fire came out last month, one of the biggest disappointments users had was that Amazon’s promise of “ultra-fast web browsing” seemed to be all talk.

In our original testing we found that Silk was actually slower going through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud servers than just connecting to the web directly.

Amazon’s position on the whole thing was that Silk would get faster as the back end accumulated more data to cache and predict user behavior.

The crew over at SitePoint have introduced a new PHP-specific resource that's looking to provide a good resource for those looking for community info and tutorials - PHPMaster.com.

PHPMaster is the latest and greatest in the SitePoint family, dedicated to bringing you the highest quality in tutorials from some of the web's best PHP Developers, as well as news and information on events in the PHP Community.

Tutorials posted so far include:

OutSystems this week released version 5.1 of its Agile Platform, featuring "1 Click" provisioning designed to help developers quickly get projects up and running on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service.

HP for the first time is enabling infrastructure and application provisioning services to third-party cloud providers, initially Amazon's EC2.

Amazon has launched the beta for Spot Instances, which lets developers and customers bid for unused capacity on Amazon's EC2 service.

New JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 boasts extended services architecture and integration with Amazon's EC2.

Channel Register: "But for the moment, Amazon's EC2 sets the pace in commercial cloud computing, and that means being Amazon's friend is particularly important to companies like Red Hat that want to make money from clouds."

From the Linux (and Linux Journal) perspective, there's an issue with clouds—those back-end Web services that compose Utility Computing.

They're proprietary. Amazon owns AWS (Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2 and a growing number of others). Google, Microsoft and other companies own theirs as well.

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Amazon Web Services has added a new option for its EC2 hosted cloud service that allows customers to sign long-term commitments in exchange for substantial discounts over its exiting offering.

The company explains how it uses Amazon's EC2 cloud product to help insurance companies detect fraud.