February 21, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Virtual computer service provider Global Hosted Operating System, or G.ho.st (g.ho.st), announced on Thursday that it has migrated all of its data operations to Amazon Web Services (aws.amazon.com).
G.ho.st provides a free Web-based virtual computer service that includes a personal desktop, files and application and comes with 3GB of storage. The company says its service is accessible from any browser and that it offers the first true open Web operating system.
G.ho.st says that its virtual computer service now runs on a virtualized data center and it relies on various Amazon Web Services including Amazon's EC2, Simple Storage Service, Simple Queue Service and Simple Database.
"G.ho.st is utilizing AWS to ensure the complete scalability and quality-of-service of our virtual computer service, while providing the very best available security and backup for user data," says Zvi Schreiber, founder and CEO of G.ho.st. "We also find AWS to be extremely cost effective, helping to keep the virtual computer absolutely free for all users."
Last week, Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage affecting thousands of websites that rely on its S3 storage and EC2 cloud computing services including Web 2.0 startups like Twitter, AdaptiveBlue, SmugMug and 37Signals.
