Comment Re:Potentially a good service - needs a consumer t (Score 2) 187
I think this opens the possibility for a middle-man company to provide [...] tools for end users.
You hit the nail on the head about AWS' goal: They are providing the APIs for others to develop consumer-level tools and products by utilizing their existing infrastructure. Everything, from EC2 to S3 to R53, is geared towards developers (which will then market to end users) by providing full functionality via an API. Glacier is no exception, and as you said, there will be great tools available for end users for those ready to create them.
Maybe someone reading this thread is already fast at work developing exactly what you say.