Amazon adds persistent storage to cloud computing service
 

It's just like an unformatted hard drive, Amazon.com Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels explained. The difference is that it's in the "cloud" somewhere and you get to it through an API.

Amazon Web Services executives on Sunday described a forthcoming persistent storage feature, called EC2 Persistent Storage, which they say will make its hosted computing services more flexible and far more reliable.
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*Source: News.com (http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-991...tag=nefd.top)*

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