AWS Tools Aplenty

With the AWS tools/stacks being built by the likes of WeoCEO and Heroku, it is becoming increasingly clear that leveraging the flexibility and scalability of EC2, S3 and SQS is going to be a key component for a lot of up and coming web services. Why? Because these services offer a lot of flexibility and some massive savings on overhead.

I'm predicting that either Amazon or one of the players dealing with their services regularly is going to roll out a full tool suite for public consumption sometime soon. Sure, WeoCEO is pretty solid looking, but if they combine some of the other ideas out there (not sure which I can enumerate here, so I'll update more later), and make it a flexible toolkit for anyone to use in deploying an app, the whole hosting/deployment game will change radically (and with it, the costs).

Open Brain Function Analysis

Brainscape, one of the finalists for Amazon's AWS Challenge, is an interesting way to store, analyze and share fMRI BOLD (blood oxygen level dependent) signal data. Privacy/access control and evaluation/analysis tools make this a great resource.

Can't wait to see how it progresses.

Very cool that they're building the app on top of Amazon's amazingly flexible services. AWS is really a platform/tool set to watch closely in the near future.