I've used BitNami a number of times and their product is incredibly polished and has a huge library of server apps. I needed to test some of our software with a couple of different versions of Drupal and I was able to spin up running instances in just a few minutes, without touching a command line. It's definitely a big step up from just launching an AMI.

Don't we already had an app store for servers called apt-get?

Hasn't Bitnami been going for years, though? (At least 4-5, I think). I'd be interested to find out why they took the Yc cash now.

I have worked with Daniel and Erica (the Bitnami execs) for the last five years. They are smart and they have been steadily growing Bitnami for a while now. Their appliances make deploying and updating a snap.

The BitNami Cloud Hosting Features page [1] doesn't say anything about how easy (or how difficult) it is to update an application (or stack). Will I be notified if there's a new version available? Can updates be automated?

Other "managed hosting" providers make updates a big selling point. For example, check out the marketing copy at Page.ly (managed WordPress hosting) [2].

[1] http://bitnami.com/cloud/product-tour

[2] https://page.ly/features/

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Fantastic news for the guys at Bitnami. I met Daniel López at LinuxCon 2012 in Barcelona and he let us all know there that they have an interesting proposal. I'm still missing some Nginx love on your stacks, btw, but I guess it'll come eventually.

Is the pricing just for the one click launch? Or have the public AMIs you've been maintaining gone away and it's all pay to play?

I see only open source applications. Can someone offer commercial applications that are not open source?