Article: Building Applications in the Cloud with Amazon Web Services
You know I love my Amazon. Being so much more than a bookseller, several years ago, Amazon redirected its expertise in building big things to building a set of online services known collectively as Amazon Web Services. I was really excited about AWS's first offering, Simple Storage Service (S3). I wrote one of the first .NET libraries for interacting with S3 and published my work at DevX in May of 2006.
A lot has changed since then, but Amazon's work in the cloud has not. Since S3, Amazon released its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), SimpleDB, and Simple Queue Service (SQS). Each of these offerings are production class services offered by a company that has built one of the biggest online retail engines in the world. It seems they have some experience in building big things.
This afternoon DevX launched a special report on Software as a Service (SaaS) and featured an article I wrote as part of the report. The article is a high level perspective on Amazon's offerings in the SaaS and cloud-based services market. Read it.
I plan to continue to write about Amazon's offerings and will probably pick back up on writing a freeware AWS library for .NET if there is interest. Let me know.
