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+1  Q: 

Is it possible to create an IM chatting service on the cloud?

Is it possible to Google App Engine or Amazon EC2 to create a chatting tool that is (obviously) real-time? The motivation is avoiding setting up servers, and dealing with spikes in demand.

Are there any open-source tools for this?

With Amazon EC2 or others, is it possible to set up something that has push-notifications enabled (COMET, etc..)? Will costs be too high?

+1  A: 

WIth Amazon EC2, anything is possible has you have access to the "bare metal". You can look into ejabberd for the XMPP server.

With GAE, the XMPP facility doesn't support the "group chat" functionality.

As for the cost related sub-question, this is pretty much open-ended.

jldupont  2009-10-28 00:34:05

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