Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Amazon Extends S3 Services To Europe

Amazon Web Services, the Internet web services arm of online retailer Amazon.com, revealed Tuesday that it has extended its Web-based data storage service, Amazon S3, to Europe. The offering, called Amazon Simple Storage Service, or Amazon S3 for short, provides software developers and businesses access to the a storage infrastructure accessible via application programming interfaces (APIs). Amazon said that the rates for European customers, converted into U.S. currency, range from 18 cents per gigabyte of storage per month to a dime per gigabyte for incoming data transfers and 13 cents per gigabyte of outgoing data transfers. Amazon's S3 web services offering is used by third parties to offload handling of storage; Amazon also offers similar web services for cloud computing.