Amazon’s database service that is SimpleDB is now available for unlimited beat testing. SimpleDB provides an ability to store, process and query data in cloud based environment. SimpleDB works in conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The company has announced that
You can get started with SimpleDB for free and without risk. For at least the first six months of the public beta (starting December 1, 2008), you pay no charges on the first 25 Machine Hours, 1 GB of Data Transfer, and 1 GB of Storage that you consume every month. In most use cases, approximately 2,000,000 GET, QUERY, or QUERYWITHATTRIBUTES API requests can be completed per month before incurring any usage charges. Many applications should be able to operate perpetually within this free tier, such as a daily web-site analysis and traffic reporting tool, a web indexing service, or an analytics utility for online marketing programs.
Amazon has also cuts the price of SimpleDB dramatically, he charge for storage and for processing, effective immediately. SimpleDB storage is now priced at $0.25 per GB per month, down from the former price of $1.50 per GB per month. Of course, existing data stored in SimpleDB will be charged at the new rate.
SimpleDB database Explorer is also available with 30 days trial of SimpleDB. Simple Database Explorer supports direct upload of existing MySQL data into SimpleDB as well as easy creation of domains, items, and attributes.
