Amazon on Monday opened up its SimpleDB cloud-based database service to an unlimited beta audience, after a year's private testing. SimpleDB is just one of many components that make up the Amazon ...

Amazon SimpleDB offers businesses using cloud-based applications a place to store simple data. While not useful for all Web-based data storage, Amazon SimpleDB can work well in environments where ...

Amazon SimpleDB provides the core database functions of indexing and querying. The service automatically indexes data, requires no schema and provides APIs for storage and access.

Amazon has added a database to its collection of “cloud computing” tools for developers. SimpleDB as the new service is known, offers developers a database on pay-as-use basis, which, as Dave ...

As part of the Amazon Web Services family, Amazon’s SimpleDB is a massively scalable and reliable key/value datastore, which is exposed via a web interface and can be accessed using any language ...

SimpleDB, a web service meant to replace or augment a standard database, is now in public beta with reduced pricing and a free entry-level tier. SimpleDB’s sister Web Services, EC2 and S3, have ...

SimpleDB, which Amazon released into public beta in December 2007, is a complement and adjunct to the company's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) and Simple Data Storage Service (S3).

Amazon has moved its SimpleDB online database service out of beta, claiming that new features have reduced the cost of data storage from US$1.50 to US$0.25 per gigabyte per month.

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 ...

Don’t forget to check out the previous article in this short series on SimpleDB of this article, entitled “ Cloud storage with Amazon’s SimpleDB, Part 1 ” — and while you are at it ...