Free cloud computing resources

Here is a list of free offerings from some of the major and reputed cloud computing vendors.

• Force.com : Free edition gives you ability to build one free application , many websites, 100 user logins etc. to sign up go to : http://www.salesforce.com/platform/

• Google App Engine: Free hosting of Java or Python application, you can host your website on Google app engine having just basic html files as well. It allows you to host up to 10 applications for free: for more information visit: http://code.google.com/appengine/

• Amazon AWS (EC2): Amazon AWS recently added a free option to their EC2 hosting.  read more at http://aws.amazon.com/free/

If you know any other free offerings from other vendors, please add it to the comments section below and I will update this blog entry. thanks!

Some hand picked books to help you get started on using these services: