I have become really interested in Amazon.com over the last little while. The stuff they are doing with their web services platform is just amazing, and it is already having a huge impact on how web businesses are created and operate. We are using Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) in Podcast Spot, and I absolutely love it. Taking the guts of Amazon and making them available as services to other companies was a very smart decision in my opinion, despite what the investors on Wall Street might think.

Here are some excellent resources if you’d like to learn more:

• Here’s the official Amazon Web Services site
• SmugMug, a popular photo sharing site, says using S3 has saved them over half a million dollars
• An article from BusinessWeek on Jeff Bezos’ decision to go for AWS and Wall Street’s reaction
• A seventeen minute interview with Jeff Bezos on TalkCrunch
• Another interview with Jeff Bezos, this one a three and a half minute video from the Web 2.0 summit

I’m definitely watching to see what else Amazon launches because chances are, it’ll be useful. So far companies like Yahoo and Google have received far more Web 2.0 attention, but I think that will begin to change, and people will realize that Amazon.com is actually one of the most interesting tech companies around.