Did you know you can use Amazon’s SimpleDB for free? (Just keep the data and transfer below 1GB per month, and keep the queries limited)

Amazon Web Services Blog - Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free!

“We polled the attendees at a recent Amazon SimpleDB webinar and found that over half of them didn't know that they could start using the service for free. That's a shame because SimpleDB is easy to use, scales easily to handle high request rates, and is available in our US and EU regions.

You can keep up to 1 gigabyte of data in SimpleDB without paying any storage fees. You can transfer 1 GB of data and use up to 25 Machine Hours to process your queries each month. This should be sufficient to allow you to issue about 2 million PutAttribute or Select calls per month.

We have pages of SimpleDB sample code and libraries, plenty of SimpleDB articles and tutorials, and some really good SimpleDB documentation.

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Wow, I don’t think I knew this (lol obviously! ;) I like free. I wonder how I can use this to store personal information and stuff? hum…

Make sure you click though to the samples as there’s a good bit of stuff there.

Amazon SimpleDB - Category: Sample Code & Libraries

Also there’s a few interesting looking SimpleDB related projects on CodePlex (like Linq to SimpleDB, etc)

CodePlex, SimpleDB Search

 

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