A good thing really can get better! Amazon S3, perhaps the most well-known cloud computing infrastructure service, just got another upgrade. The simple storage service now supports versioning:
Versioning provides an additional layer of protection for your S3 objects. You can easily recover from unintended user errors or application failures. You can also use Versioning for data retention and archiving.
This new feature will give the thousands of websites and services using S3 a quick and easy to way to support undo or file revision histories, among other things. It kind of moves S3 “up the stack” a little, in that it can now do something that developers could have built themselves, but in a simple and easy-to-use way.
Combine this powerful new functionality with Import/Export that launched last year and a couple of recent price drops, and it’s easy to see why Amazon continues to lead the way. Developers continue to make extensive use of the service too. At the end of Q3 2009, there were over 82 billion objects stored in Amazon S3. Just incredible.
I remember when S3 launched back in March 2006, when I was building Podcast Spot, a hosting service for podcasters. It completely changed our business. Global, scalable storage with Amazon worrying about all the details? And for such a small cost? It seemed too good to be true. I’m thrilled to see that S3 just keeps getting better, with relatively frequent price reductions too.
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