I’m a huge fan as well, but from another side. Amazon Web Services Elastic Computing Cloud is completely revolutionizing business computing. Essentially; they are making servers obsolete.

More accurately, EC2 makes going out and purchasing a server like going out an purchasing a power generator; almost no one would do that when you can plug into a wall.

The implications of this paradigm shift are staggering; we are rapidly moving away from the idea of buying/leasing a “server,” installing an Operating System, a Database, a Web Server, a Cache Daemon, etc, to simply “spinning up” templated server instances in the cloud and hobbling together highly available services to build an application. Among many things, this means scalability worries are irrelevant; instances can be scaled up or down as needed. It also dramatically lowers the cost of entry to doing something like, say, starting a SaaS business!

Cloud computing is coming!