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Amazon Storage Services

If you are looking for a place to store data on the web, there is one great place that is perfect for all your needs. Amazon Web Services have recently developed their new storage service to help web developers and programmers to store large amount of data for the web-based projects. Amazon S3, which stands for "simple storage service," is an Internet-based storage option that frees Web builders from worrying about where they are going to store data as they work on projects that need to scale.

Internet giants Google, AOL, Yahoo and MSN are all preparing storage services. But while those service providers are targeting their wares for consumers, Amazon said a corporation might use S3 as an off-site storage solution for data backup. Or, a developer may be building an e-commerce site for a business that needs to handle transactions during a busy commerce season. Developers could also create consumer applications that let people store their photos, music and documents.

The developer could use S3 as his storage infrastructure during the creation of almost any project. There is no additional hardware involved, so it costs less than if he used traditional storage arrays. The software includes a Web services application programming interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the Internet.
The interfaces, based on REST and SOAP Web services, allow developers access to the same storage infrastructure Amazon uses to run its own Web sites.