Amazon releases new payment service
Having teased his Twitter followers for more than 24 hours, Amazon’s Jeff Barr just released a blog post describing their new web service, the Flexible Payment Service.
“We’ve taken all that we know about dealing with credit cards, bank accounts, fraud checking and customer service and wrapped it all up into one convenient package.
In much the same way that S3 and EC2 allow developers to forget about leasing space in data centers, buying servers and negotiating for bandwidth, FPS shields developers from many of the messy and complex issues which arise when dealing with money. Once again, we take care of the ‘muck’ and developers get to focus on being innovative and creative.”
Yet another example of commoditising the previously differentiating (and difficult), enabling application developers to concentrate their efforts on the bright idea or creative spark that truly differentiates them from their competition.
It’ll be great to see how this goes… and what Amazon release next…
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:36 am
Amazon Flexible Payment Service
Amazon.com, the online retail leader has launched a new payments service called Amazon Flexible Payment Service. Amazon FPS gives the developers the power of web services and the Amazon.com Trust to build payment solution for any type of online servic…