Building scalable web apps on a budget is increasingly easy with Amazon’s multiple Web Services. On demand cloud computing, storage and now SimpleDB. As described in their website:
Amazon SimpleDB is easy to use and provides the core functionality of a database - real-time lookup and simple querying of structured data - without the operational complexity. Amazon SimpleDB requires no schema, automatically indexes your data and provides a simple API for storage and access. This eliminates the administrative burden of data modeling, index maintenance, and performance tuning. Developers gain access to this functionality within Amazon’s proven computing environment, are able to scale instantly, and pay only for what they use.
The cool thing about all this is that you can, for a few cents, rent the infrastructure and experience of a 10+ year old web company. Google on the other hand keeps all of their stuff to themselves (well at least most of it).
(Via GigaOM.)
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