Amazon Selling Simple Storage Service

The online retailer has added a new service for users: a low-cost virtual closet where people can put in and take out their data online, and pay for just what they store and transfer. Will the cost and functionality of Amazon S3 convince you to make it part of your application development? What should Amazon do to improve the minimal feature set, if anything, to S3? Let us know at released the Simple Storage Service (S3), offering people access to Amazon's storage network. The service supports HTTP as the default download protocol, but also includes a oft-discussed GDrive, as he posted comments from Amazon about the service: Until now, a sophisticated and scalable data storage infrastructure like Amazon's has been beyond the reach of small developers. Amazon S3 enables any developer to leverage Amazon's own benefits of massive scale with no up-front investment or performance compromises. Developers are now free to innovate knowing that no matter how successful their businesses become, it will be inexpensive and simple to ensure their data is quickly accessible, always available, and secure. One likely difference between S3 and GDrive, plus whatever competing efforts may arrive from Microsoft or Yahoo, is cost. The major search portals may have to offer similar services for free, and that is assuming they take a standards-based approach to developing a storage service. Amazon has significant brand recognition itself, and has steadily built up an array of web services for developers. The most notable one before S3 was their here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.