Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.
Pricing
- Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee, and no start-up cost.
- $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used.
- $0.20 per GB of data transferred.
Website: www.amazon.com [via]
Looks great and therefore I’m not going to write to much about it before I use it myself and share my experience with you. It seems to serve my acute server problem for my new site www.bangkoktalk.nl and www.bangkoktalk.tv.
Bangkoktalk & Amazon S3
The first show has been filmed and will be broadcasted soon and I will post it on the above mentioned websites.
Since I do not have any revenue at this moment I had to invend a smart sollution to prevent a huge and risky investment in a dedicated server. The only sollution to keep the cost down was to change the site in a commercial Galore.
But thanks to Tijs I now can prevent such a thing with Amazone. Anyway more about this new feature of Amazone and Bangkok Talk as soon!
Update: Strange that Amazone is not mentioned in this Daily Tech article: Microsoft Aims to Compete with Google’s GDrive
( April 21st 2006)
