Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> (Most especially, "Amazon Mechanical Turk". WTF?)

The only WTF part of this for me is that people will actually work for a 
penny a click or a nickel a result.  But without telling us how much you 
actually looked into it (like whether you read Amazon's pages, etc) it's 
hard to help explain.

 > I'm not really seeing what SQS would be useful for.

Think of a renderfarm for POV renders. How do you manage machines vs 
renders?  (The main problem with SQS in that sense is that you can't easily 
set the time-out for retries.)

Lots of this stuff is used by Amazon internally. I suspect order fulfillment 
is using SQS internally, and putting products up on the store (like, writing 
descriptions or entering metadata) is using something like Turk.

 > And I'm also wondering just how much all this stuff actually *costs*...

CPU hours are a bit expensive, but comparable to renting a shared server 
somewhere else (except you get a "dedicated" server). The rest is really 
cheap.  Hit aws.amazon.com for details.

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