jordan willms on business, entrepreneurship, technology and the web

Previously, I blogged about the Pros & Cons of the Pay Amazon Web services.

Basically, the biggest con was a lack of service level agreement (SLA). "How can a third party seriously build a profitable application or service on top of something that has no uptime guarantee or refund consequence for severe outages?"

I am now happy to have learned, that Amazon (as of October 1st, 2007) does provide service level agreements for their S3 storage service, which was designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

A big pat on the back for Jeff Bezos. Web companies can now leverage Amazon's offerings with piece of mind.

Heck, it feels good to sleep at night.

When one thinks of Pay Web Services these days, it is hard not to think of Jeff Bezos and his Amazon Web Services. In a nutshell, Amazon provides developers with access to a suite of web services, some pay and some complementary. It is my goal of this post, to analyze these various web services, and use them as a model to discuss Pay Web Services in general. Is it possible to create a reliable business based off of Web Services as a platform?