Amazon has noticed the importance of web storage. So, they implemented a online storage services call Amazon S3 (Amazon Web Services Store: S3) with a user friendly interface and easy retrieve and store amount of document.

Amazon give your the flexibility for entering your web storage in anywhere of the world through internet access. Plus more, Amazon S3 allow Amazon user using an inexpensive data storage infrastructure that run its own global network of web sites or storage data online. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.

Technology use on Amazon S3

Using SOAP and REST interfaces, developers can easily store any number of blocks of data in S3. Eack block can be up to 5 GB in length, and is associated with a user-defined key and additional key/value metadata pairs. Further, each block is protected by an ACL (Access Control List) allowing the developer to keep the data private, share it for reading, or share it for reading and writing, as desired.

Cheap Pricing

S3 is a very cost-effective data storage solution. Using S3�s economical pay-as-you-go model, storing 1 GB of data for 1 month costs just 15 cents. Transferring data in and out of the system costs 20 cents per GB…”

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