Looking into Amazon's web services
InternetWeek has an in-depth look at the evolution of Amazon's web services platform. With some good insights from Jeff Barr, the program manager for Amazon Web Services, there's a lot that can be learned both about working with the web services and about scaling a service as popular as AWS.
There are some good examples from the AWS community which make it easy to build on the platform as well, such as Elena Dykhno's AWS Zone, which includes extensive code samples and examples, and Alan Taylor's terrific Amazon Light, which binds a whole stack of web services together into one comprehensive application.
What's especially interesting about these web services is not just that they can be used to make money, but that they also will be among the first major web services to charge for the information they provide.
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