e-Science Central is a platform that runs on Amazon, Azure, and local machines and provides data storage and workflow enactment. It has a web-based interface that allows users to work from anywhere. The platform supports dynamic resource allocation, pay-as-you-go pricing, controlled sharing, collaboration, and communities. Workflows can be written using blocks in languages like Java, R, Octave, and others. However, the desktop-based block designer tool has issues where XML files need to be correctly specified and dependencies defined.