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Amazon is selling more than books and stuff. It’s selling storage, computing power and other behind-the-scenes data center services. The New York Times posting Amazon’s Hot New Item: Its Data Center gives an overview.

EC2 lets its customers quickly start up a virtual computer in the ”cloud” — industry slang for data centers around the world — then use it as a Web server or for crunching data and shut it down just as fast.

Amazon, which gives away the computer code to access its services, bases its fees on how much data is shifted around and stored. For example, the company charges 15 cents per month for every gigabyte of data stored in its Simple Storage Service. Developers pay another 10 cents each time they send a gigabyte into the cloud and 18 cents per terabyte when they pull data back out.

I’m using Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) via JungleDisk to backup some stuff. The price is right compared to other online storage services.

(From: JungleDisk)

…John

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