In Amazon’s Data Socket Nicholas Carr writes on how Amazon’s S3 provides reliable, scalable storage to start-ups, lowering costs and barriers to entry. Om Malik is quoted as saying that the value of developers in these start-ups will move from the architectural side to user experience and “developer skillset.”
Now while I like S3 and think it will enable start-ups I must say you can still build an unscalable, unreliable service on it. S3 and co. don’t give you magic scalability, your application still has to be architected and developed with care and thought.
