Amazon SimpleDB: New Web Startup Service

Amazon is systematically expanding its line of web services Amazon Web Services, which are positioned as a technical infrastructure for web startups. Well known hosting S3 (Simple Storage Service) and EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) distributed computing system. Now there is another service in this row - Amazon SimpleDB . After a long period of development, it finally opened for limited beta testing (by invitation).

According to independent experts , SimpleDB is a truly outstanding technical solution. This is a non-relational database with support for the largest data sets and maximum uptime, which is typical for all Amazon services. For many startups, this DBMS can be a real replacement for their own servers. For example, Twitter developers could switch to SimpleDB to get rid of the terrible brakes in their system.

SimpleDB databases do not support text search; to do this, create an inverted index. A rather detailed analysis of the pros and cons of SimpleDB from a technical point of view can be found here .
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SimpleDB will cost 14 cents per hour of computer time (average server performance based on Intel Xeon is 1.7 GHz). A gigabyte of traffic costs 10 cents, storing each gigabyte is $ 1.5 per month.