I read about Amazon’s new Simple Queing Services somewhere and wanted to provide my own insight into what it is and how it will effect the Internet. However, the Ars’ guys are much smarter than me and they do a much better job of explaining it. I highly recommend you check it out. Good read and an interesting move by Amazon.

I remember when Amazon was still in the red and people questioned whether Bezos knew what he was doing. Seems like he has a solid head on his shoulders. The question is though how many developers will trust Amazon with holding their application data?

Here are the basic features:

• CreateQueue: Create queues for your own use, or to share with others.
• ConfigureQueue: Modify the properties of an existing queue.
• ListMyQueues: List your existing queues.
• DeleteQueue: Delete one of your queues.
• Enqueue: Add any data entries up to 4 KB in size to a specified queue.
• Read: Return data from a specified queue. No data-key is required, and data is returned in roughly the same order it was added to the queue.
• Dequeue: Remove a specified piece of data from a specified queue.