"Our web has been taken hostage and monopolized."

I'm not so sure that sensationalist line from their website is true. Currently I use AWS for a LOT of our latest work and I love how they (Amazon) keep pushing out new and exciting features/products. Amazon, I personally feel, championed the whole 'cloud' model that others are jumping into and I don't see this as being monopolized. Frankly, the Amazon entry made the difference to us of either bootstrapping a product or searching for VC funding - we would never have been able to run our system using traditional hosted machines and scaling up / down using EC2 helped us in a major way