Amazon offers some pretty cool services: S3, EC2, Alexa Site Thumbnail, and others. A while back I wanted to use AST with Django, so ended up writing the Python bindings to the REST API (they didn't previously exist. I even wrote up a quick tutorial.
Update: Amazon no longer maintains AST. I've decided to archive a few of the old sites, so no longer need to take thumbnails. However, a few other thumbnail services seem to have crept up, including SnapCasa", and WebSnapr.
This entry is from my tech blog and was written on Dec. 28, 2008. It's been tagged with alexa and amazon and api and django and labs and rest and thumbnails.
Just saw a large white parrot try to steal the clothing from someone's drying rack. (about 2 weeks, 5 days ago)