Google had launched an Internet-based storage system. It seems that they are now a direct competitor to the widely used service of Amazon.com.
With the better established Amazon Web Services (AWS) option known as Simple Storage Service (S3), Google storage provides Developers a mechanism to tap the data that Google houses and keeps safe as well as accessible.
This service has been designed to provide low level access to the information that is stored on the Net. Web applications and websites can tap into the data as required. However, Google will charge through a utility computing model, which means customers have to pay more if they use more.
Google had announced this new service in middle of its blog post Wednesday.
This service is though open by invitation to a limited number of developers in US only. The early testers will get a data storage capacity of 100 gigabytes (GB) and about 300 GB each month in data-transfer bandwidth.
With Amazon's S3, there will be fees. Per GB per month will cost 17 cents, Uploading data to the service will cost 10 cents per cent, and for downloading data from it will cost 15 to 30 cents per GB. The S3 pricing will be more complicated as per-usage costs drop at higher rates of usage.
With the better established Amazon Web Services (AWS) option known as Simple Storage Service (S3), Google storage provides Developers a mechanism to tap the data that Google houses and keeps safe as well as accessible.
This service has been designed to provide low level access to the information that is stored on the Net. Web applications and websites can tap into the data as required. However, Google will charge through a utility computing model, which means customers have to pay more if they use more.
Google had announced this new service in middle of its blog post Wednesday.
This service is though open by invitation to a limited number of developers in US only. The early testers will get a data storage capacity of 100 gigabytes (GB) and about 300 GB each month in data-transfer bandwidth.
With Amazon's S3, there will be fees. Per GB per month will cost 17 cents, Uploading data to the service will cost 10 cents per cent, and for downloading data from it will cost 15 to 30 cents per GB. The S3 pricing will be more complicated as per-usage costs drop at higher rates of usage.
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