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Everyone awed by Facebook's $50 billion valuation may want to break away for at least a moment to consider Amazon's future.  An analyst with Morgan Stanley has predicted that Amazon will generate an impressive $100 billion in revenue in 2015.

To put that in perspective: Amazon reported $7.56 billion in revenue during the third quarter of 2010, $6.57 billion during the second quarter, $7.13 billion during the first quarter, and $9.52 billion during the fourth quarter of 2009 (totaling $30.78 billion), so $100 billion in a single year will represent a huge increase.

Amazon.com has launched a Connect to Facebook feature that will allow users to receive product recommendations based on data from their Facebook profile as well gift suggestions for friends on Facebook based on their data.

The feature, which is currently in beta testing, will also allow users to find friends' Amazon Wish Lists more easily.

The new option reads, "Connect to Facebook to get Amazon recommendations for you and discover Friends' Favorites and Likes."

Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses it. Elastichosts uses it. Google uses it.

Yahoo uses it. Engine Yard uses it. Facebook uses it.

"It" is Linux, of course.

At the risk of coming off like TV's "Mad Men," Amazon Web Services really are New and Improved.

The company today announced the addition of Amazon Relational Database Service, giving users of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) access to a virtual instance of MySQL.

That's the New part.