Amazon have released their Simple Queue Service, SQS, to the world. Technically it is exactly what the name suggests; a simple queuing service. Like S3 it does one thing and it does it well. Like S3 pricing is on usage, 10 cents for every thousand messages and 20 cents for every gig of data transfered.
Effectively though it is a lot more than that. Tie SQS up with S3 and some simple Rails code and you have a massively scalable, reliable application.
They also provide a Windows Communication Framework “add-in” which should make it really interesting for Windows developers.
I am really liking what Amazon are doing here, taking the core technologies found on servers that power applications, making them globally available and providing the kind of power smaller developments didn’t have access to.
(Thanks to Paul Fallon for the news.)
