Amazon Web Services
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The Amazon Web Services (AWS) are a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) offered over the Internet by Amazon.com.
Launched in July 2002, Amazon Web Services exposes Amazon's technological infrastructure. They offer what they call "the fundamental building blocks of business", geared towards allowing people to focus on their core business and their ideas. To date, more than 290,000 developers have signed up to use Amazon Web Services.[1]
Amazon Web Services’ offerings are based on a per-usage pricing structure and use standards-based REST and SOAP interfaces designed to work with any Internet-development toolkit. All have bandwidth costs for upload and download, unless users transfer data from within Amazon's services, and any file storage necessary (for example, EC2 machine images) will incur S3 fees as well.
[edit] List of AWS services
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), providing scalable virtual private servers using Xen. Not yet open to the public, and requires an S3 membership.
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), providing Web Service based storage for applications.
- Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), providing a hosted message queue for web applications.
- Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk), managing small units of work distributed amongst many people.
- Alexa Web Services, providing traffic data, thumbnails, and other information about web sites.
- Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS), providing access to Amazon's product data and electronic commerce functionality.
- Amazon Historical Pricing, providing access to Amazon's historical sales data from its affiliates.
- Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS), currently in limited beta[2], provides an interface for micropayments.
- Amazon DevPay, currently in limited beta, is a billing and account management system for applications that developers have built atop Amazon Web Services.
- Amazon SimpleDB, currently in limited beta, allows developers to run queries on structured data. It operates in concert with EC2 and S3 to provide "the core functionality of a database."[3]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Amazon Web Services main page
- Bezos Opens Web-Services Sharing for Profits
- Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet
- Beta tester's overview of Amazon EC2 features and possible applications
- Interview with Mike Culver Amazon Web Service Evangelist
- Interview with Jeff Barr Amazon Web Services evangelist
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