Amazon Web Services (http://aws.amazon.com) has been around for over a couple years now. At this point you'd have to be pretty far out of the technology loop to not have heard of cloud computing, computing in the cloud, etc. There have been countless articles on cloud computing and how it can reduce costs, streamline organizations, etc. At the Web 2.0 Expo there was an afternoon session on AWS hosted by Amazon.
There was an overview of the various services. That was followed by speakers who talked about their company's use of AWS. That was followed by a couple bits by some VCs. All of it very inspiring. Again and again the point was made that AWS (read: for the most part their computing and storage services) provided flexibility at a fraction of traditional costs. Amazing stuff.
There is no doubt this is the future. On the other hand instead of asking, what am I doing now that I can do more for less. Maybe an even better question would be, what can now be done that just couldn't be done before? What is the clouds' first killer app going to be? That is THE question.
Tags AWS . Cloud Computing . Web 2.0 .