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I’ve been meaning to write about this when I first receive the e-mail, but I kind of forget, and also have been busy this week.

Amazon recently announce their new web service which they call it Amazon S3 – simple storage service.

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.

The 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.

Amazon S3 only offers a web service. It is based on REST and SOAP interface. Web developers could then build application on top of it. Through this service then Amazon (as what it says on their site) will handle the scalability, reliability and everything else.

This service looks like it could solve a lot of things. Amazon announced it at the right time. Could this be the solution for podcasters? Could this also be a solution for IPTV? We will also see more of exciting web apps being built as this could be a solution for scalability. This is a great way for developers to offload storage.

Is there any websites using this? I would like to know. I’ve always been a fan of Web services with open APIs.

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