A few years ago when Amazon launched their computing platforms (S3, EC2) I was scratching my head trying to figure out what in the world a retail store was doing launching computing services… but after I saw it in action it dawned on me that Amazon was not going to be just another online etailer, they really wanted to “Google” things up and become a major online player in every regard.

I’m constantly impressed with how much R&D they do over there, some really smart dev teams work on this stuff… which allows people a lot less smart than them to blog about it and virtually pat them on the back

it’s improved vastly over the years