Last Monday the winners of the AWS / Microsoft contest were announced.
The following criteria was used during the juding of the winners:

• Creativity
• AWS service integration
• Commercial appeal
• Fit and polish

The winners and the respective pages:

• Lucy Krasilshik – My 10 Wishes – $5000 Amazon Gift Certificate.
• Amit Gupta – Amazagames – MSDN Pro Subscription.
• Mathias Cianci – FeatFinder – $500 Amazon Gift Certificate.

I checked out the sites and there are some interesting ideas that utilize the AWS. I personally would have picked the third place winner over the first place winner… Not that I have anything against Santa.  Anyway, good to see Amazon continuing to fuel innovation, and great to see people using MS VS 2005!