Hosting Your Facebook Applications with Amazon Web Services: Wall Street Journal Sings its Praises

In the article Small Firms Tap Amazon’s Juice, Web-Services Unit Gains Popularity Renting Storage, Server Capacity, reporter Mylene Mangalindan profiles Renkoo Inc. Renkoo created a program called Booze Mail for Facebook, and uses Amazon’s online computer services to host it.

If you can’t predict the amount of traffic, then (Amazon’s) service is really awesome because it removes risk,” says Ms. Park. “You don’t have to invest in a lot of hardware you don’t have to use.” Renkoo pays Amazon about $1,000 a week for the service, she says.

I asked our developer to look into this a few months ago, and was told that the effort needed to get an app up and running on Amazon’s servers was more daunting than the writing of the application itself. I’d love to talk to someone who’s done it and get some additional insight.

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