Today we launched the project I've been working on for a looong time: Amazon Simple Storage Service. Mom: S3 is a service that developers can use to store and retrieve files, photos, videos, documents, whatever. Like an Internet hard drive. You probably won't use it directly, but other people will write applications on top of S3 that you might use. For example, photo sharing sites, web based word processors, email applications and who knows what else!

I'm in Santa Clara, CA this week at the SDWest Software Development Conference where we're officially announcing S3. See you at our booth!