The web as platform: Amazon continues its march

Processing on Ooyala is taking longer than usual, so here’s the YouTube version

March towards what? Becoming a one stop shop for start ups at the very least. Just a few days after announcing SimpleDB Amazon has launched DevPay. What does DevPay do?

This new service allows entrepreneurial developers to wrap their own business models around Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2, taking advantage of Amazon’s existing customer base and billing infrastructure. With DevPay, developers can focus on being creative and innovative while dispatching the less-than-glamorous aspects of dealing with bank accounts, credit cards, and so forth to us.

I am just amazed at how fast the company has gone from throwing an idea at the wall to its current state. I hope they can keep up the pace. The question still remains? How well do these scale beyond startups, i.e. will the enterprise ever adopt an all-Amazon back end?

In the video, I talk about Amazon, the growing AWS ecosystem and some other related thoughts

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