[jessaustin]

You're moving the goalposts. First you said:

AWS really only makes sense ($$) when you can take advantage of the ability to spin up and spin down your instances as needed.

After it's pointed out that other facilities besides EC2 motivate people to use AWS, you can't turn around and complain that those other facilities are useless without EC2. Even if that were true (it's not), such people would be using EC2 not for its load-scaling, but rather to enable their use of the non-EC2 facilities.

[mbreese]

Who's moving goal posts? After it was (correctly) pointed out that AWS!=EC2 (even though most of the original post was talking about EC2), I asked a simple question - how useful are the rest of the services outside of EC2? It is a legitimate question.

I'm not sure how useful everything in the AWS umbrella is outside of EC2. I was hoping to learn something, not provoke anyone.

[jessaustin]

I guess I misunderstood you; no worries!