After taking all the time they could to ensure that the Amazon SimpleDB did well in the private beta, the team brings it out for the public. The SimpleDB is pretty simple with a free signup and it’s a great news given its the first time they have offered a Web service for free. The offer lasts six months, during which users can utilize the given amount of data transfer machine processing, after which they will have to pay as they use it. The blog post mentions
You can now get started for free. For at least the next six months, you can consume up to 500 MB of storage, and you can use up to 25 machine hours each month. You can transfer 1 GB of data in, and another 1 GB out. You can move as much data to and from Amazon EC2 as you would like, for free.
Amazon also plans to bring out its own interface much like the known SQL with additional plans to enable transferring of multiple items in one go.
