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POPSAmazon.com delivers for-fee Web services that make sense In March, Amazon.com introduced S3 (Simple Storage Service ), a metered storage service for arbitrary blobs of data. Recently, Amazon’s adventure in metered Web services continued with the announcement that its SQS (Simple Queue Service), which had been in beta since well before the surprise announcement of S3, has now joined S3 as a commercial offering.
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POPSOnline storage from Amazon This is pretty interesting for a number of reasons. First the fact that Amazon is the first of the big four( Amazon, google, yahoo and microsoft) to roll this out. I know that there have been similar concepts on the web before but Web 2.0'afying it seems to be a major focus for the big four. The steady march back to dumb terminals continues. Second the pricing structure for this service seems interesting. The fact that you have to pay 15 cents a gig for storage and 20 cents pre gig of bandwidth, both of which seems very reasonable to me. I konw that google is trying to figure out the business model for making their online drive free and that is what is holding up it's deployment. Third the fact that Amazon is working on something like this at all is interesting. Since whene are they a technology company? This coupled with S3 seem to point to them wanting to be more of a technology company in the future.
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