Cloud Platforms: Rackspace Cloud, Google App Engine, Visual Webgui, Azure Services Platform, Sun Cloud, Caspio, Amazon Web Services Book

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Rackspace Cloud, Google App Engine, Visual Webgui, Azure Services Platform, Sun Cloud, Caspio, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Simple Queue Service, Orangescape, Amazon Simpledb, Open Platform as a Service, Engine Yard, Vertebra, Force.com, Appscale, Heroku. Excerpt: Amazon SimpleDB is a distributed database written in Erlang by Amazon.com . It is used as a web service in concert with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon S3 and is part of Amazon Web Services . It was announced on December 13, 2007. As with EC2 and S3, Amazon charges fees for SimpleDB storage, transfer, and throughput over the Internet. On December 1st 2008, Amazon introduced a new pricing with free tier for 1 GB of data