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SimpleDB – 2,000,000 FREE requests for next six months.

Amazon announced a new pricing for SimpleDB today.  Here is an extract from their pricing page:

http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/#pricing

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.

This is significant shift from the earlier approach that they have taken with all other Web services, where they did not offer any free trial.

SimpleDB Explorer is free for 30 days, now SimpleDB is FREE for 6 months for up to 2,000,000 requests, so its even easier to give SimpleDB a try.

SimpleDB – FREE trial & public beta

Amazon today announced that everyone can now signup for SimpleDB.
http://blog.sdbexplorer.com/2008/12/simpledb-everyone-can-sign-up/
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/11/amazon-simpledb-grows-up.html

They also announced FREE SimpleDB trial for upto 2,000,000 queries per month, every month for next six months.
http://blog.sdbexplorer.com/2008/12/simpledb-2000000-free-requests-for-next-six-months/

What does this mean for Bucket Explorer?

We added “Audit Reports” in Bucket Explorer’s June 2008 release. Not many people have been able to use that since SimpleDB was in private beta. Now since its available to everyone, more Bucket Explorer users can choose the option the create Audit Reports in SimpleDB. This is especially useful for Team Edition, where you may need to track S3 usage by team members with whom you have shared your S3 account.

Another important feature, which our users should expect within next few months is “indexing of S3 meta data in SimpleDB”. This will make Bucket Explorer much more responsive when managing buckets with a large number of objects.