Disordered Cogitations

I received an email from Amazon today announcing their web service for storage. It read in part,

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.

Just two weeks ago rumours of Google's G: Drive surfaced on digg. Now Amazon's beat to the punch.