I just wanted to get the word out about a new contest I saw recently. As I myself may be entering the contest I don’t believe that I will infact release any more details about my ideas, but I would like to draw attention to the contest in hopes that other people may be intersted in entering.

AWS has just launched the AWS Start-Up Challenge, a contest for entrepreneurs and software developers that will award the winner $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, an investment offer from Amazon.com, and more. What are you waiting for? Submit your idea now.

Please read all the fine print before entering, as there is a great deal of it. The few quick notes which I saw, please read them yourself in case I didn’t understand them correctly is that is isn’t open to people making over 10 million per year or people using the free web services, such as ECS. I’m looking forward to playing around with the Elastic computing cloud and seeing how many parallels systems I can power up (depending on my budget). O the joys of a contest.

Good Luck Everyone, and enjoy.