I have been playing with Amazon S3 as a remote backup mechanism for my machines. It is well thought out, works well, and is cheap. For many applications it is a “good enough” solution for managed storage.

Now the friendly folks at Amazon have announced their SimpleDB which provides the core functionality of a DB - real-time lookup and simple querying of structured data. Looks like yet another “good enough solution” for many web based businesses.

It seems like Amazon is rolling along, trying to become the “data center for everyone else”. Big enterprise are not going to be able to divest themselves of their data centers anytime soon, but small business can have the support provided by a data center – with only a fraction of the expense.

Now match this up with a tailored IDE and programming framework to make it even easier to use these services – and you’ll have a killer web application platform (better than Force.com since it doesn’t require the use of a proprietary language – just a specific API).

Stumble it!

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