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I was at StartupCamp talking with Jeff Barr of Amazon and Tim Bray of Sun and it was clear to me that there are some big things coming. Rails is the darling of the web construction world right now and getting incredible mind share. The basic components of what makes a web service are also now becoming standardized and solidified. Amazon S3, EC2, SQS, and the other Amazon Web Services are the perfect platform for cost effective scaling. Rails is the perfect construction set to build that killer application. I predict an avalanche of innovation when this pair gets linked. I am working on some useful pieces for this but expect others to announce things soon. I just saw this great post that does a great job linking Amazon to 37signals.

Are 37signals and Amazon.com building the ultimate Ruby on Rails hosting solution? Imagine a reliable host that could provide effortless scalability combined with a killer application deployment solution. What if there was an “official” Ruby on Rails host from the creators of the framework itself?
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Think about it this way - as development with Ruby and Rails becomes more and more popular, there’s an opportunity here for a major player to step in and build a deployment platform that makes it easier and cheaper to scale. Something like Amazon’s s3 would work for the small guys, but the large guys (read enterprise) might be able to trust it, too.