[sojacques]

You're generalizing too much if you believe that the whole AWS stack is bad.

S3 is very reliable, and I'm not aware of anything as reliable (we're talking eleven nines)/simple/cheap/distributed.

EC2 gives you the ability to manage instances in several continents with a dead simple API, which is unheard of anywhere else at this price.

ELB is very reliable, simple to use, and saves you hours of setup.

My point is that if you really wonder why anyone would want to use AWS, you might not be considering AWS, but only EC2, and in a very non-international way.

[ksec]

Arh. I should have written EC2. Sorry for the confusion. ( Will double check next time before i make a post ) I do realize there is other AWS services that are great and simple to use. But for hosting i dont think anyone should choose EC2.