Rackspace Offers Cloud Computing with Mosso

This is great that we have competitors jumping into the arena. Bandwidth really should be like buying gas - there are different grades of it, and it should be priced as a commodity. With viable alternatives to S3 we'll start to see a more competitive landscape and will be less impacted by outages of one provider as we can switch quickly over to another provider if one is set up to do so.

Not quite there yet, but that's the direction we're heading in with more providers jumping into the field. Exciting stuff.

Cost more, no facebook apps (TOS) ... competition is only good for the market if its real competition. What are the advantages over Amazon?

I've been using them for about 1.5 years, and while the road has been rocky, reliability recently has been much better. Their customer service is pretty awesome, and SSH is promised and is in the works.

Dollar for dollar, it's pretty comparable to running your own server, with ~infinite scalability and managed service to boot.

No support for Python despite the homepage saying it is.

Apart from that it looks like an interesting service, could maybe help with a lot of the headaches of hosting...