I liked it. I mostly agree too. I do think it was a glaring mistake to ignore the incredible deals you can get now on dedicated servers. Probably 95%+ web apps can do everything they need to do with 1-2 relatively lightweight machines with the 1-4TB monthly outgoing bandwidth that's included free with them.<p>The totally legitimate and efficient uses of EC2/S3 are few and far between. Mostly things like Justin.tv, where their peak load is so much higher than their average.<p>The best thing Amazon has done with EC2/S3 is give the architecture astronauts a datacenter-holodeck, where they can safely live out their fantasy scaling scenarios.