Amazon S3 Online Storage
Amazon has added a new low-cost online storage service, which they’re calling “Amazon S3″:
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.
An S3 account can hold up to 5 gigabytes of data. Here’s the princing information:
- 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.
This is already a crowded niche, with many free offerings (like my favorite, Box.net). However, many people seem to want to pay for things, and I’m sure people will be more willing to trust Amazon with their data than some startup company that may be gone next month.
Here’s more info about Amazon S3.
