Amazon S3: Cheap web hosting from Amazon

Just months, after Amazon launched a service to enable web developers to use Alexa technology to develop their own customized search engines, Amazon has yet another service for the web-based businesses.

The online ecommerce giant has launched a new online storage service, dubbed Amazon S3. Adam Selipsky, VP of product management and developer relations at Amazon Web Services said in a statement on this initiative: “The motivation is to enable developers to worry about building innovative applications with their data, and not to worry about where to store it.”

Amazon has already invested heavily in their fast, reliable, scalable computing infrastructure based on commodity hardware and with this service; they are making parts of it available for affordable prices.

Amazon is charging $0.15 per gigabyte of storage per month, and $0.20 per gigabyte of data transferred and they don’t have a minimum fee fixed for interested businesses. So, in a way people would be only paying for what they use instead of a fixed package like most other web hosting companies require them too.

Dave Barth, product manager for Amazon S3 added: “And we’re going to charge you the same amount for the same reliable service, regardless of how big of a customer you are. We think that will do a lot to empower smaller developers to innovate.”