Prepare For an Explosion in Mobile Cloud Apps

10.12.2010
A substantial building block for the future success of the cloud was put in place yesterday as Amazon released Software Development Kits . These will allow .

If that sounds confusing, here's the short version: Amazon has just made it a piece of cake for even modest programmers to make phone and tablet apps that can use its cloud services, such as .

This is likely to bring a slew of cloud-enabled applications to phones and tablets. Even better, however, it might encourage a whole new generation of apps that creatively make-use of cloud services to offer new and exciting functionality for mobile workers.

The mobile cloud revolution just might be about to start.

Prior to Amazon's move, programmers behind mobile apps who wanted to make use of Amazon Web Services had to create their own means of accessing it. This added substantial overhead to any project, and put Amazon Web Services beyond the reach of some. With an SDK, most of the hard work has been done, leaving programmers free to concentrate solely on the app's functionality and interface, both of which can make or break an app in the .

Although just about anybody can purchase AWS services, including individuals, this hasn't stopped some extremely high-end users from making use of it. The DropBox cloud sync service uses S3 to store files, for example, although users are unaware of the fact. Even .