I think this has the potential to be pretty huge. EC2 is becoming almost the ideal disaster recovery environment for us. All it would take is a simple bridge be

I think this has the potential to be pretty huge. EC2 is becoming almost the ideal disaster recovery environment for us. All it would take is a simple bridge between our internal messaging platform and SQS and there we go. This is an incredibly powerful paradigm even without persistent storage, and now with the addition of persistent storage, serving numerous small files just became much simpler than in the S3-only world.