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Amazon is going to monopolize. then everyone cries.

Thats a serious issue with Amazon.

Even bluehost.com and hostgator host their sites on Amazon (they do not trust their own infrastructure).

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Did Amazon specify a reason why you were rejected?

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IMO it is a good thing that Amazon is critical about who to allow on their platform. My experience is that if you make clear what you are going to do and link to the relevant web pages they will allow

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Actually Swift (OpenStack object storage) is compatible with the Amazon S3 API. (Image)

Take it for example, I pay for 100GB storage in gdrive while I am using 60GB. Capacity is there and it also eases all the billing side that would be far different than how we do it currently. Also, cl

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My best guess: Amazon has deals with the big parties.

SES seems to be doing fine as an alternative to something like Mandrill or SendGrid. I'm curious what they do to maintain reasonable IP rep. Like I know SendGrid uses mailchannels so they have that st

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Can you support your claim of loss-leader? I think Amazon is perfectly capable of running a quality platform given its scale for the price they are asking. They obviously don't need to rent servers as

@M66B: Arguably, Amazon SES's loss-leader offer is really only something that the big boys can afford to make: strategically, it seems to be a way to try to draw people into Amazon's ecosystem.