I love that Amazon continues to explode our previous model of computing. The entire ecosystem of PaaS providers that are built on top of AWS benefit from these advances and Amazon wins by continuing to be the platform to build a PaaS on top of.

While I'm sure it's not their aim, the AWS console and associated web interfaces are functional but have pretty terrible user experience. It's as if AWS has found this perfect customer fit... build awesome tech, build an interface just-barely-good-enough to administer it... foster the ecosystem of providers that make your tech easier to use... rake in the cash because at the end of the day everyone is running on AWS regardless of who charges their card.