Amazon.com is leading the charge in a new development strategy known as cloud computing. This video serves to introduce you to several of Amazon.com's web services, many of which are changing the landscape of computing and business as we know it.

As defined by the W3C, a Web Service is "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine-processable format (specifically Web Services Description Language WSDL). Other systems interact with the Web service in a manner prescribed by its description using SOAP-messages, typically conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction with other Web-related standards."

Amazon Web Services is the name used to collectively define an array of Web services provided by Amazon.com which allows developers to take advantage of Amazon.com's computing and data resources.

• Amazon Web Services Home Page: The official Amazon Web Services Web site. Contains forums, documentation, tutorials, and much more.
• Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB: A recently published O'Reilly book which introduces many of Amazon's Web Services.
• RESTful Web Services: A great book introducing readers to the power of REST-based applications.

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