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Amazon EC2 (which stands for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) is a virtual machine hosting service from Amazon which forms a component of Amazon Web Services along with other services like S3 and SQS which provide data storage and message queuing respectively.

If Flickr and it’s ilk could be considered tier one applications, then surely Amazon S3 much be considered a tier zero service.

Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.