Amazon Web Services and Facebook are teaming up to help developers build instantly scalable applications for Facebook users. Build your Facebook app on AWS to ensure reliability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness as your application grows in popularity.

With 55 million active members worldwide (as of November 2007), Facebook's social networking site allows you to create and share your applications with a massive and growing community of users. Amazon Web Services enables you to quickly implement your ideas for Facebook applications by providing an inexpensive, scalable computing platform. Using these infrastructure web services, your Facebook application is able to reach "web-scale" by scaling up and down seamlessly as demand dictates -- with pay-as-you-go pricing and no upfront costs.

To get started, simply sign up and start building:

1. Sign up for Amazon EC2 for elastic compute capacity in a virtual environment.
2. Sign up for a Facebook developer account.
3. Take advantage of Facebook and Amazon Web Services developer resources:
   • "Hosting Facebook Applications on Amazon EC2" Tutorial
   • HelloWorld Facebook Application AMI 
   • AWS Resource Center for plugins, command line tools, code samples and more.
   • AWS Simple Monthly Cost Calculator to estimate your monthly AWS costs.
4. Post your questions to the developer forums:
   • Amazon Web Services
   • Facebook
5. Launch your application on Facebook and apply for your Powered by Amazon Web Services logo.

Check out the other solutions* Amazon Web Services provides to help you build innovative applications.

* Amazon Associates Web Service is currently not available for use on Facebook.

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