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I found the top two stories on scalebig last night to be interesting enough for me to dig a little deeper. The one which surprised me the most was William Vambenepe’s post about why he thinks that REST APIs doesn’t matter in context of cloud management. While REST might be ideal for many different things, including web based applications which are accessed mostly by the browsers, Amazon chose to avoid REST for most of its infrastructure management APIs. Has this lack of REStfulness stopped anyone from using it? Has it limited the scale of systems deployed on AWS? Does it limit the flexibility of the Cloud offering and somehow force people to consume more resources than they need? Has it made the Amazon Cloud less secure? Has it restricted the scope of platforms and languages from which the API can be invoked? Does it require more experienced engineers than competing solutions? I don’t see any sign that the answer is “yes” to any of these questions. Considering the