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The price of cloud computing just got a little less expensive. Baseline monthly fee for storage remains, but high-volume users will be able to take advantage of a tiered pricing model.

Over the weekend Amazon’s S3 storage service was down for an extended period and a bunch of Web 2.0 sites lost avatars, images and other items on their sites.

Since enterprises haven’t totally jumped on the bandwagon Amazon’s outage didn’t have broader ramifications.

One of the more interesting lines of Amazon’s earnings report was the “other” line, which largely includes Amazon Web Services such as S3 and EC2.

Reading the tea leaves it appears that Amazon’s side ventures are gaining momentum. Unfortunately, tea leaves are all we have.

Amazon has announced the limited beta of its SimpleDB, a database Web service designed to ride shotgun with Amazon’s S3 storage service and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Amazon’s Simple DB provides real-time lookup and querying of structured data, which will presumably be stored on the S3 service.

According to Amazon customers will save money because they [...]