I posted not too long ago about how cool Amazon’s shared storage and e-commerce services were for application developers, and now they’ve done it again with SimpleDB.
It’s amazing to me how Amazon continues to outshine established tech companies with these hugely valuable and innovative infrastructure type systems / services, when their core competency is selling books (and more of course).
I guess now that I think about it, maybe their core competency doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with selling books (or whatever else), but rather building good software that lots of people like to use, whether that be their own web site / app or services that others can use in building stuff.
It also makes me that much more happy to remember that the founder (Jeff Bezos) is interested in futuristic things like making space travel accessible too.