Tech Stuff

About a week ago Amazon announced its newest web service SimpleDB. After reading the email to announce it I went straight to their site to try to get into the initial Beta program. Crossing my fingers that I might get in soon. Not sure what I want to do on the new platform, but I am sure I can find a good use for it. Worst case is that I play with it and then wait for a new client that this will fit with. From the information posted about it so far it sounds like it is really meant to be a simple database to store possibly meta data on objects and then store the larger objects in Amazon’s S3 service. The cost of the service is a combination of server usage, bandwidth and storage. Might be pretty cool for a video sharing site.

I bet there are a lot of people that can relate to this video. I know it brings back some memories for me after graduating from college in 2000 and jumping into a start up with a couple guys which would then go out of business 2 years later.