Amazon offers online storage for web developers

Amazon offers online storage for web developers


Amazon’s S3 system gives developers a web services interface and online storage for code

Amazon has launched S3, a web services interface for developers.

The firm said that developers coding web services could use S3’s “highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure” to store and retrieve their data. The service “aims to maximise benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers”, according to a statement from Amazon.

Amazon said there are no monthly subscription charges - customers only pay for what they use. Charges are currently set at $0.15 per gigabit of storage used, and $0.20 per gigabit of data transferred.