Amazon Web Services today announced Public Data Sets on AWS to provide a centralized repository of public data sets in the cloud. Amazon Web Services is hosting public data sets like the mapping of the Human Genome and the US Census data on Amazon EC2 for free as the Amazon Elastic Block Store.

To join the community you'll need to create an AWS account and learn your way around the ElasticFox.

AWS hopes to help researchers leverage the entire EC2 ecosystem to enable cost-effective innovation.

If you have any interesting data for the AWS community it could be analyzed and interpreted a million ways.