Amazon’s Content Delivery Web Service by The End of This Year

Amazon is planning to launch a Content Delivery Web Service by the end of this year. This new (and as yet unnamed) service will provide you with a high performance way to distribute popular, publicly readable content to your customers all over the world, with low latency and high data transfer rates. currently this web service is in private beta testing and will be latest in Amazon’s cloud computing services.

Amazon’s content delivery web service help developers to focus on their application rather then payment, billing, fulfillment and Web search services, all these services will be provided by Amazon’s content delivery web service.

How Amazon’s Content Delivery Web service Will Work

Start by storing your content in an Amazon S3 bucket and then marking the content as publicly readable. Next you’ll make a single API call to register the bucket. The call will return a domain name that you’ll use to refer to your content in your web page or application. When clients request the object via the returned domain name they’ll be routed to the nearest edge location, for high performance delivery.

Amazon’s Content Delivery Web service Goals

Allow developers and businesses to get started easily, with no dollar or volume commitments. Like our other services, this one will be pay-as-you-go.
Be simple and easy to use. In fact, a single API call is all that’s needed for you to start delivering your content.
Work seamlessly with Amazon S3, for durable storage of the definitive versions of your content.
Have a global presence, using edge locations on three continents in order to deliver your content from the most appropriate location

Dam Selipsky, vice president of product management and developer relations for Amazon Web Services, said

Amazon Web Services for the past several years has been operating a cloud computing platform that’s meant to remove the need for a lot of companies to run their own IT infrastructure. One of the missing pieces for that has been content delivery for popular content. Our customers have clearly told us that’s a capability they’d like to see in the platform.

Tal Saraf, general manager of the new AWS content delivery service, said

Customers participating in the beta testing program are using the service for a wide variety of tasks, including distribution of podcasts, progressive download of video clips, delivery of photos and serving up of Web site objects like CSS and JavaScript files. They’re using it for a wide spectrum of frequently accessed content that’s distributed around the world.

Source : Amazon Web Services Blog and CIO