Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gave the keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo, outlining some next-gen focus of Amazons suite of Web Services.So whats in store for the shopping portal? Bezos and his team are pushing hard on the family of Amazon Web Service API's that includes the S3 storage API, EC2 computer services and the Simple Queue Service. Bezos also mentioned that Amazon is working on other API's in the web infrastructure stack.
Amazon's Simple Storage solution has become a highly touted cost conscious alternative for companies to manage online e-commerce services, and currently holds 5 billion objects in S3, up from 800 million in July 2006. However, Amazon currently isn't making money on this venture, but sees it as a future money making opportunity. S3 currently has 90 million requests per day, and 16 thousand requests per second.
Some companies which have been taking advantage of Amazon's S3 service are S3AjaxWiki, JungleDisk, and iminlikewithyou. Also, dont forget about using A3 to back up your Flickr photos.
[via programmableweb]
