[ceejayoz]

Because this'll integrate heavily with Amazon's other offerings in time. I'd expect click-to-deploy for Node apps to wind up in the interface fairly quickly.

[eric_h]

Opsworks already has click-to-deploy. I imagine Elastic Beanstalk does too.

Really, I think the benefits of amazon git hosting is that they'll be more resistant to failure than github is currently.

Also I'd imagine companies with existing IAM account management structure and large teams would find this product somewhat attractive.

[aalbertson]

Lambda is pretty much there.