Amazon S3, which stands for Amazon Simple Storage Service has reached a new milestone, by doubling its size of objects stored to 10 billion objects, compared to 5 billion objects in April 24, in addition to expanding the hosting service to the European. The increase in objects stored also reflects the growing number of developers that used Amazon S3, the user group of developers have grown from 240,000 in April to more than 290,000 as at today.

Amazon S3 was introduced in March last year, has been a hosting provider of choice for developers for its scalability, reliability and cost-saving features. Presently, objects is allowed to write, read or delete up to 5 gigabytes (GB) and the number of objects that can be stored is unlimited. On the other hand, developers can made the object they stored private, public, or assign rights to a specific user and the objects can also stored and retrieved via a unique developer-assigned key. Currently, Amazon S3 is offering the standards-based REST and SOAP interfaces.

Amazon S3 employed pay-as-you-go scheme hosting solutions for developers to store their data without any up-front investment. Developers pay only for the space they consume and there is no minimum fee. $0.15 per GB of storage per month and $0.20 per GB of data transfer in the US. However, in the Europe, the pricing scheme is much different, as storage is $0.18 per GB and data transfer in is priced at $0.10 per GB, and so on.