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Amazon S3 pushes Microsoft, Google Back to Drawing Board

Amazon today announced Amazon S3 - an API for storing and retrieving data on the web. The data will reside securely inside Amazon datacenters and can be accessed either with HTTP or the BitTorrent protocol.

Developers pay $0.15 per GB of storage per month and $0.20 per GB of data transferred. That's cheaper than a lot of hosting services.

When you store data with Amazon S3, you assign a unique object key that can later be used to retrieve the data.

Since the Amazon S3 API uses standard REST (XML/HTTP) and SOAP interfaces, S3 applications can be written in Java, Ruby, Perl, C#, PHP or any Internet-development toolkit.

Read more: Amazon S3 - Simple Storage Service

Download Amazon S3 API Docs | Amazon S3 Code Samples

Source: BusinessWeek | TechCrunch