Wowzas, amazon seems to have broken a barrier in this new service oriented toward developers: totally scalable webhosting, which "is intentionally built with a minimal feature set"... the costs are zero startup, fifteen cents per gigabyte per month storage, and (sorta the kicker) twenty cents per gigabyte of transfer... access is by HTTP, supporting authentication and access controls, using REST and SOAP.
Also says, "A BitTorrent (TM) protocol interface is provided to lower costs for high-scale distribution. Additional interfaces will be added in the future." Looks like they'll make a killing on bandwidth. Cool thing is that object/file sizes are up to five gigabytes.... I wonder if they only charge bandwidth for the torrent seed, or if not, whether you can control your upload rate! Yikes. So they're touting "unlimited storage" on this one, but probably have near-unlimited network capabilities - can you imagine the overnight bill for say hosting the latest knoppix? This has some terrific potential though, and I'm hoping it pressures more traditional hosting companies into more scalable "a la carte" offerings. :) blog entry, sorry to be verbose if you've dugg: http://www.betaflow.com/2006/03/14/amazon-offers-unlimited-storage/ S3 page: http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/102-0771510-6189758?node=16427261 Ben _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
