No one needs an introduction to Amazon.com, (if you do, then only God only knows where you've been). Now after gaining an almost iconic status in the world of online shopping, Amazon is broadening their horizons and venturing in to storage services. The "Amazon S3" is a simple storage service targeted at software developers that's a highly reliable and low-latency data storage service at affordable prices.
The Amazon S3 is mainly storage for the internet to make web-scale computing easy which can be used for storage and retrieving any amount of data. It gives the same access to the infrastructure that Amazon uses to run their own network of websites. S3 lets developers pay only for what they consume and there is no minimum fee. Developers pay just $0.15 per gigabyte of storage per month and $0.20 per gigabyte of data transferred.
Amazon S3 Features:
- Amazon S3 is deliberately built with a negligible feature set. The focus is on simplicity
- Write, read, and delete objects containing from 1 byte to 5 gigabytes of data each. The number of objects that can be stored is unlimited.
- Each object is stored and retrieved via a unique developer-assigned key.
- Objects can be made private or public, and rights can be assigned to specific users.
- Uses standards-based REST and SOAP interfaces designed to work with any Internet-development toolkit.
Comment Preview