I just received a bill for the very small amount of storage I had used on Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) during the month of July. The charge for my storage and data transfer was 4 cents!
We have talked about micropayments for years, but, until now, I had never made one.
This is a terrific example of Web services. S3 is the base service -- offering reliable, infinitely scalable storage in Amazon's data centers. But, I do not deal directly with Amazon. Jungledisk has virtual disk software that makes my S3 store look like a standard disk drive on my computer. They insulate me from S3, pay Amazon, and bill me. My payment is automatic through another service, Paypal.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Micropayment for storage service
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My name is Larry Press. I am an information systems professor and have been learning and teaching about information technology since the days of unit record equipment.
