Amazon recently released Amazon SQS, a simple message queing service. It complements the equally simple, yet extremely effective Amazon S3 online storage service featured in this past article. This gives me the opportunity to start a list of infrastructure services that could be used to build Office 2.0 applications, following a suggestion made by my good friend Charlie Wood on the Enterprise Irregulars mailing list.

The following list, also available on this page, provides a set of infrastructure services for data storage and message queuing that can be used to build online applications. It focuses on services that require no programming, or expose a service-oriented API that could be used from Zero Code tools. As such, service providers offering PHP hosting do not qualify for example — and beside, making a list for them would be quite pointless…

The list is currently very limited, thereby demonstrating that the market for good Web services is rather limited or that I did not do my hoework well enough. My guess is that reality stands somewhere in between, and I invite you to make suggestions for additions to the list. The list was built using Dabble DB and can be accessed through the following JSON and RSS feeds.