Published 2006-03-15, https://web.archive.org/web/20061127141948/http://www.bitgain.com:80/
Techcrunch has an interesting post on a new service from Amazon called S3 (Simple Storage Service). According to Techcrunch "[..] it is a storage service backend for developers that offers a highly scalable, reliable, and low-latency data storage infrastructure at very low costs?.
Interesting twist: Amazon is not going to push S3 to end-users. Instead it is a service geared towards the developer community. This is a very, very interesting development. Just like Google, Amazon has a massive grid computing platform on which its main service runs. For Google it's search, for Amazon it's selling goods. Both companies are discovering they can do much more with this platform. Google is pushing out new services like crazy (mail, maps, calendar, etc) and now Amazon is following suit (and where is eBay? Still counting how much money they have left in the bank after their $4B "VoIP development project"?).
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