Thursday, March 16, 2006

Amazon S3

===Today Tech news ===

Amazon has noticed the importance of web storage. So, They implement a online storage call Amazon S3 (Amazon Web Services Store: S3). it is also provide a user friendly interface and easy retrieve and store amount of doc.

Amazon give your the flexbility for entering your web storage in anywhere of the world thru internet access. 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."

Technology use on Amazon S3

Using SOAP and REST interfaces, developers can easily store any number of blocks of data in S3. Eack block can be up to 5 GB in length, and is associated with a user-defined key and additional key/value metadata pairs. Further, each block is protected by an ACL (Access Control List) allowing the developer to keep the data private, share it for reading, or share it for reading and writing, as desired.

Cheap Pricing

S3 is a very cost-effective data storage solution. Using S3’s economical pay-as-you-go model, storing 1 GB of data for 1 month costs just 15 cents. Transferring data in and out of the system costs 20 cents per GB..."

Full Stories : Amazone S3 Web Pages

For me, the pricing quite interest for me. but for me... i still refer the box.net storage (view this page ) because low usage on online storage.

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