Amazon moves nearer Platform as a Service concept with new developer tools

Amazon announced new developer tools and services at its AWS Summit in New York yesterday. The Amazon API Gateway allows developers to build a REST API through a point-and-click configuration page, and the idea is to create a backend service for mobile or web applications. The Amazon API Gateway lets you define models, …

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Better late than never!

So Amazon AWS has finally caught up with Microsoft Azure! However it looks as though AWS requires you to create a back-end mobile service per target platform unlike Azure which has great tools for building platform agnostic mobile services with push notification.