Amazon Storage Web Service
Via TechCrunch I hear a pretty interesting news: Amazon: Grid Storage Web Service Launches
Briefly, it’s an online storage web service , with a pretty accessible price($15 per month for 100 GB of storage - although you should add the cost of the bandwidth as well - 20$/month/100GB) for everybody to use. I guess it’s an excellent price, startups could use this service for bootstraping (no web hosting hastle, no scalability issues hosting-wise).
Potential uses? Web-storage apps, photo-sharing sites(think flickr), Gmail-like apps, etc… (I don’t have any innovative ideas for amazon storage , but I guess we’ll see some pretty interesting stuff coming… )
Update
Russell Beattie has a couple of ideas on the uses of S3 as well, and introduces us to a cool Python script of backing un Flickr photos onto S3
You got the facts a bit wrong:
The storage is 15 cents per Gigabyte of data stored and 20 cents per Gigabyte of data transferred instead of $15 and $20.
See the pricing at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/102-4489101-6292924?node=16427261
The point of the previous comment being that you don’t have to pay $15 for the full 100 GB, but you can pay only 15 cents for just one GB or 30 cents for 2 GB of storage :)
Andrei, thanks for making it clear for the readers. By writing the price per 100GB instead of per 1GB, I wanted to stress out the fact that developers could really profit from this service, since it’s a lot cheaper than ordinary webhosting.