Amazon are truly pioneers here. We use EC2 and S3 and are looking at their database (thought our guys are fighting it a little!) so in theory someone can now run not just a digital business, like we do, but if you actually sell something now you can do it all from home and run the whole thing on Amazons platform. Kudos to them for their forward thinking
Wow. Any idea how much they charge?<p>Edit: free for the web service, they charge for the fulfillment. Not unreasonable, though I don't know what competitors charge. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller/fba/fba_pricing.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller/fba/fba_pricing.html</a>?
They're going to compete with UPS (which is transitioning into fulfillment and even IT repair at its depots!) on this and I guess they're targeting the long tail first.