Amazon Web Services Content Delivery Service

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting ready to launch a new Content Delivery Service. While there have been little technical details let out they do say the new service will be delivered before the end of the year. This is a natural progression for the Amazon Web Services team as these CDS/CDN’s are growing in popularity as companies figure out how to scale heavy multimedia requirements - from video to podcasts to mobile content.

This new service will provide you a high performance method of distributing content to end users, giving your customers low latency and high data transfer rates when they access your objects. The initial release will help developers and businesses who need to deliver popular, publicly readable content over HTTP connections. Our goal is to create a content delivery service that:

• Lets developers and businesses get started easily – there are no minimum fees and no commitments. You will only pay for what you actually use.
• Is simple and easy to use – a single, simple API call is all that is needed to get started delivering your content.
• Works seamlessly with Amazon S3 – this gives you durable storage for the original, definitive versions of your files while making the content delivery service easier to use.
• Has a global presence – we use a global network of edge locations on three continents to deliver your content from the most appropriate location.

I like that they are building this new service on top of their existing S3 storage infrastructure. Although I am a little confused as of yet what kind of value this brings over just hosting your content on S3 publicly (which is what we do).

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