Calling Web 2.0 Developers in the EU!

Are you in the UK or Europe and using Amazon Web Services? If so, we'd love to hear from you about your use of AWS. We're trying to establish a list that shows the variety of interesting uses in that area of the world. Please email us at evangelists at amazon dot com if you are a current user in the UK or Europe, and want to be "on the list". Let us know a bit about your use--the number of users, whether you are in production or not, and anything else that sounds relevant.

We'd also like to hear from you if you plan to attend Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin on 5-8 November. We'll be there, and would love to meet you in person. The buzz is that Berlin is a hotbed of Web 2.0; so this sounds like a really good opportunity to learn more about what people are building! In addition, experience says that it's an O'Reilly conference and for that reason the content will be top shelf. Everything I've heard so far tells me that the conference organizers are on track for another top-rate event.

Finally, our evangelism Wiki at evangelists.wetpaint.com lists a number of upcoming evangelism trips. Are you interested in an Amazon presentation for your user group, company, or in another setting? Add your request to the wiki--we try to fulfill as many of these as possible.

-- Mike

Comments

[Andy Waite]

I'm a UK developer and have created cheepr.com which provides a personalised feed of price drops and availability for Amazon Marketplace items. It's built using Ruby on Rails and uses the ECS API. The site is is live but I've not had much time to promote it yet, so the number of users is only in the tens.

[David Andersen]

I would use the Amazon Mechanical Turk if it was available to Europeans. I just cannot understand why we aren't allowed to just pay for our usage with a credit card. The response I got from the customer service was:

Greetings from Mechanical Turk.

I'm sorry, but it is not possible to fund a Requester account with a
credit card.

At this time a Requester account can only be funded by a US bank
account that supports ACH transfers. ACH is the US based automated
clearing house mechanism to handle interbank transfers of funds.

We hope to offer more options for people without a US bank account
in the future.

Thank you for participating in Mechanical Turk.

Best regards,

XXX
Amazon.com Mechanical Turk Program

[silpol]

I wonder what are you doing to make EU services working? And what are current obstacles?

[Luca Marrocco]

I'm italian agile developer. I have started experimenting using aws to deploy enterprise application for my company in Switzerland and our customer in UK