Over the past few years Web services have grown from a conceptual draft based
on the ideal of cross-platform programmatic interoperability to a formal
specification and a vision of grand-scale distributed system architectures.
Today we are putting that vision to work and designing systems with
service-oriented architectures that are critical to our businesses.
Amazon.com has been one of the forerunners in the adoption and promotion of
Web services. Consistently striving to remain on the forefront of technology,
Amazon has thoroughly embraced Web services - so much so in fact, that you
can tie some serious revenue numbers directly to the external use of Amazon's
Web services. For the remainder of this article I will outline for you just
one of the avenues Amazon has taken to leverage Web services to generate new
business.
Most of us are familiar with Amazon.com and ... (more)