Amazon: Our Most Fulfilling Web Service Yet

What an AWESOME idea. I wish I had some sort of widget to sell.

This is astounding and will really shake up the fulfillment business.

Amazon are truly pioneers here. We use EC2 and S3 and are looking at their database (thought our guys are fighting it a little!) so in theory someone can now run not just a digital business, like we do, but if you actually sell something now you can do it all from home and run the whole thing on Amazons platform. Kudos to them for their forward thinking

Does anyone know if you can only use their US warehouses or Europe / Germany is also available?

Germany and UK too.

Wow. Any idea how much they charge?

Edit: free for the web service, they charge for the fulfillment. Not unreasonable, though I don't know what competitors charge. http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller/fba/fba_pricing.html?

They're going to compete with UPS (which is transitioning into fulfillment and even IT repair at its depots!) on this and I guess they're targeting the long tail first.

Of course they also use UPS to ship (I assume), so UPS gets a piece of theirs.

And it's free!

Really cool.