Amazon Web Services has launched ‘Amazon S3’, a storage service for software developers. The service gives developers access to data storage infrastructure that can be used to store and retrieve data from anywhere on the web.


Amazon Web Services has launched ‘Amazon S3’, a storage service for software developers. The service gives developers access to data storage infrastructure that can be used to store and retrieve data from anywhere on the web.

The Amazon press release has announced it as: ” Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It’s 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”. [source]

To read more about the functionality, requirements and design principles of Amazon S3, click here.

To go directly to Amazon S3, click here.

 

 

 

 

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