Members of the Amazon Web Services Developer Relations Team have been blogging to the Amazon Web Services Blog for the last couple of months. Right now they have two blogs:

English: http://aws.typepad.com/
Japanese: http://aws.typepad.com/aws_jp/

The blogs contain information on new releases of AWS, products built with AWS, and links to articles that they believe will be of interest to the AWS developer community. Ah yes, again, using weblogs to keep a community together. I love this space!

Their posts are long winded, they are definately written by programmers and programmer managers, and they've got some unique views of the world. And, they've chosen to use TypePad and just get going on their blogging rather than 'Amazonizing' the design and attaching off the back end of the website. How very 'skunk-works' of them.

I particularly love this quote:

Learned Helplessness, when bad things happen to you that are out of your control, form of depression. Give people ways to exert control over their environment. Napkins to fold, windows to wash. Control over environment. This is what is attractive about being a programmer. Compiler does exactly what you say.