Amazon Web Services Blog: Storage Space, The Final Frontier. Amazon will be launching mountable volume storage to EC2 soon enough. rightscale has a nice post of why this is useful.

Google App Engine. i’ll file this under “very big deal”. i’ll also get out that python book too.

Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort. uses 3 different AMI images (load balancer, server, and db) to add capacity and detect failures. kinda cool.

Magnify Gives Birth to VidyUp: First Release Based on YouTube’s New APIs. widget that lets you upload videos to youtube via your site using the new youtube apis.

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Using SimpleDB and Rails in No Time with ActiveResource. it has to create an actual proxy to service requests. no caching (i can see) to address the “eventual consistency” of SDB.

Google Visualization API. now this is cool. from javascript, you can source a google spreadsheet and create data visualizations (check out the options in the gallery like heat maps, interactive graphs, gantt charts, etc). They even have the google finance interactive time-series gadget.

YouTube APIs and Tools - Google Code. customize the player, control it from javascript, embed it in other flash apps, and some cool features for managing uploaded content.

Amazon DevPay, Amazon Web Services. for example, you could write an app that uses S3 and when people use it they get charged and you get a cut. no messy management of your own pipeline. ryan, anything to add?

Amazon SimpleDB. It’s like a big-ass queryable hash table in the cloud. basic idea is to map keys with meta-data to S3 objects.

Amazon EC2 to offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux. so instead of huge upfront support costs (thousands of dollars a year) you instead pay $19/month plus 30-90 cents per CPU hour. This is totally useful for any company that currently uses RHEL and needs dynamic capacity.

Getting Started with SOAP4R. a good intro for ruby’s standard soap library. also, don’t use soap unless you absolutely have to.

Search API | Yelp for Developers. yelp, the best local review site on the web, now has a search api.

Amazon Flexible Payment Service. amazon launched a web service API for doing payments. some nice features (like micro-payments) and competitive rates.

Making the web into a banking platform (whether they like it or not). wesabe has introduced a pretty cool firefox plugin which lets you automate your bank statement downloads and upload them to wesabe.