May 20, 2008

Amazon S3. New definition in Storage

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides unlimited storage through a simple web services interface. Amazon launched S3, its first publicly-available web service, in the United States in March 2006 and in Europe in November 2007. Amazon charges fees for data stored and for bandwidth used in sending and receiving data. Amazon S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its own global e-commerce network.[citation needed Amazon S3 is reported to store more than 10 billion objects as of November 2007.[citation needed] Many small start-ups and enterprise clients use S3 as a web hosting service, image hosting service, back-up system, and more ...

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