Amazon Targets Facebook Developers

Written by Allen Stern - February 5, 2008

Amazon The latest Amazon Web Services Developer Connection Newsletter was sent out today and the main piece of the newsletter is about using Amazon Web Services for building Facebook applications. Here is the related content from the newsletter:

Amazon Web Services and Facebook are teaming up to help developers build instantly scalable applications for Facebook users. Build your Facebook app on AWS to ensure reliability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness as your application grows in popularity. With 55 million active members worldwide (as of November 2007), Facebook's social networking site allows you to create and share your applications with a massive and growing community of users. Amazon Web Services enables you to quickly implement your ideas for Facebook applications by providing an inexpensive, scalable computing platform. Using these infrastructure web services, your Facebook application is able to reach "web-scale" by scaling up and down seamlessly as demand dictates -- with pay-as-you-go pricing and no upfront costs.

If Amazon wants to grow the Web Services they offer, perhaps they should look at extending the associates program they have for the Amazon store. It would be a great way for developers to promote Amazon Web Services and also earn something at the same time. While I get that the Web Services are very inexpensive and paying a commission would be difficult, even a startup spiff might work nicely.

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Submitted by Darren on February 5, 2008 - 12:47pm.

what people are still making facebook apps, thats so 07 :p

The facebook market is so saturated its not worth being in. Its like the old saying does a tree make a sound if it falls in the woods when noone is around, does a facebook have a chance when it launches and noone is around. Your gonna get zero press for a facebook app launch unless you are a major brand. Also I think alot of us are feeling facebook fatigue big time.

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Submitted by Cyndy Aleo-Carreira on February 5, 2008 - 6:26pm.

... you've seen the pricing for AWS, right? And the deal offered for start-ups at GigaSpaces?

It doesn't get much cheaper than that, and kicking in a commission is sort of overkill at that point. Besides, the Facbook app developers would just figure that's revenue and call themselves profitable. ;)