Our latest partner, Agathon Group, has begun offering AppLogic based services and they’ve put an innovative portal in front of the system so customers can sign up online and get down to business right away. A few partners have discussed creating such a portal, but Agathon is the first to put one in production. Plus, not only can you select the service, but using sliders you can specify the amount of cpu, memory and storage. It’s quite well done and worth a look.

Also, in addition to grid based virtual servers and virtual data centers, Agathon is offering complete scalable LAMP and Ruby stacks; something quite a few rusers have requested so I’m sure they’ll do well with it.