It is perfectly sensible if you are starting a project from scratch or have already built something purely in Python. For everyone else looking to host something already written in another language, it is a problem.

I'm sure Amazon doesn't mind though, they'll just continue to get all of this business.

Good point. For existing codebases it means porting code, which could be a pain.

I did just read that Python is just the first step, other languages will be supported soon. :)

well one fuss i see is that there will be no red5 on google web services it seems...

not a big deal to most people... but from what ive read this seems more like a competitor to heroku/appjet than ec2/s3 as others have mentioned

but as a django user, i am pleased