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Amazon S3, Now with SLA!

Thinking about building or buying your own datacenter for a web-scale application? You probably know just how expensive it can be. Now there's an alternative: Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3). (If you're an S3 subscriber and you want some compute cycles on demand instead of buying your own hardware, you can try the beta version of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), too.)

From S3 page:

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.

That's not news; S3 was announced back in March 2006. What's news is that now Amazon is offering an SLA . Which means that enterprises can now confidently use Amazon's big big datacenter for next to nothing to try out new web applications. Pretty cool.

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