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navyrain on Dec 7, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon proves that REST doesn’t matter for Cloud A...

If you ignore the APIs, AWS still has a substantial number of merits which make it a formidable player. It is a huge leap to say that because the market has smiled on AWS, we all love everything about it and wouldn't prefer more of it be REST-ful.

eterps on Dec 7, 2010 [–]

Exactly, if there was a similarly priced alternative to AWS that has a fully RESTful API I'd choose the one with the RESTful API.

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