Saturday, October 03, 2009

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

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

CodePlex, SimpleDB Search

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