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I've been waiting for something like this.

Quoted: Amazon DevPay removes the pain of having to create or manage your own order pipeline or billing system. It allows you to quickly sign up customers, automatically meter their usage of AWS services, have Amazon bill them based on pricing you set, and collect payments.

Quoted: Google isn't just talking about hosting applications in the cloud any more. Tonight at 9pm PT they're launching Google App Engine (link dead ...

This would be really exciting. Amazon has a big lead with their forward-thinking jump into the web services business. But Google has a much better reputation for building high performance scalable architecture. I hope this rumor is true.

Quoted: Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source with ...

Is S3 a single point of failure for Web 2.0 companies? One of the 3 S-3 data centers went down for 2 hours on Friday morning. Given that people noticed a complete outage - requests seem NOT to have failed over to the other centers.

Amazon seems serious about responding to this - but seems like they have a fundamental system problem.

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Quoted: Save disk space and bandwidth, and increase the reliability of your site by using the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) remote storage service to host your media files. You'll also improve the reliability of your site as it serves the increasingly large multimedia files that are so popular in the Web 2.0 world.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=114501
Yes or no: Should web startups host on Amazon?

I’m sure this isn’t the only one, after all, SmugMug’s CEO told me that they had moved pretty much everything over to Amazon’s S3 a while back.