I got an email from Amazon this morning announcing a simple storage service for developers. Indeed, it is simple. One may read, write, and delete objects from 1 byte to 5GB and pay $0.15/GB/Month for storage and $0.20/GB/Month for transfer. No minimum charge, no startup fees. Security and simplicity are key tenets of the new service. One has to wonder what the adoption will be and how trusting folks will be when parking objects here. Nevertheless, I remain impressed with the simplicity and cost of the new Amazon offering.

When I think about Sun’s network services, this is a prime example of where I believe we should be going. We have $1/CPU/Hour on the grid. What next from Sun? What next from Amazon? What next from Google? It’s an interesting world out there and will only become more interesting as network services deploy and are pulled together in mashups.