Update: The reference to SDS has been removed from the Amazon site linked to below. The original text is saved at the bottom of this post.
A new and unannouced Amazon Web Service to be called “SDS” is referenced on this Amazon web page discussing customer YouOS (see second to last paragraph - screen shot is also below) and is being tested with a select few Amazon partners. After a little digging, we heard that it may stand for “Simple Data Service” and will be launching sometime this year, although another source said that the name is incorrect. A representative from Amazon would not comment on whether the service exists or not.
Amazon’s web services unit (see our discussion of Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)) has been making waves this year, and a number of high profile startups are using one or more services to speed deployment time and save money. In a recent interview, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos discusses Amazon’s strategy around their Web Services unit.
Our data online will simplify our lives.
Sign me up for ME YOUOS.
I’m sure that Amazon will play a serious role in forthcoming evolution of web-services.
EC2 rockz
Has anyone considered the possibility that this is a typo of SQS, the Simple Queue Service?
Aaron, no, because SQS immediately follows SDS in the sentence.
Secure Database Service.
The currently only missing part required for implementing EC2 in production environments, since EC2 storage isn’t persistant, which you would need for your database.
Anyone with me?
I agree with Danny (#5.) My guess would be some sort of database service to compliment EC2. When I looked into EC2 I thought “very cool, but what about the database?” That seems to be the missing link right now and I’m pretty sure Amazon can handle providing an EC2 type service for databases.
“D” is next to “S” on my keyboard. While it would be non-standard, I believe this may be an typo of “SSS” - Simple Storage Service.
Because it’s so hard to press S three times, right?
This thread on Amazon’s developer discussion group has a lengthy discussion of what people would like Amazon in delivering a database in the S3, SQS, EC2 type of format.
http://developer.amazonwebserv.....p;tstart=0
John #7, nope that’s not it either, because SSS is abbreviated as S3, and that is mentioned already in the previous sentence as something they’re already doing. I agree, the database idea sounds right.
Duh, it’s sodium dodecyl sulfate.
Amazon just made it easier for kids to start their own Web 2.0 company with some loose pocket change.
My money is on SDS being a structured data server/query language. Think of it like a SQL server but scalable to Amazon-size data stores.
What about D for Delivery (as in Simple Delivery Service)? some email delivery system from AWS would be really cool, it’s something important for websites/startups, and providers are quite expensive..
http://www.stands4.com/SDS
An interesting thread in the EC2 forum titled: ” Database Functionality: What Do You Need? ” by the Martin@AWS (so being somebody working at amazon webservices):
http://developer.amazonwebserv.....geID=43576
I’m going to predict SDS is some sort of database system with REST transport over HTTP. It’s something we’ve lacked for a while now.
sounds like GData.
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/
It s awesome!