The next in Amazon’s cloud offering: Cloud Search [Blog explaining the service]. I am not very much impressed the instance model of the service. I would love to see a service where I am charged based on my query traffic and index size.

I use Amazon S3 for delivering content and as backup. Today I was introduced to an improvisation to the cloud storage model (offered by DiomedeStorage): demarcating the storage into different types:

1. Online: The content is available immediately on request.
2. Nearline: The content is made available within 5 minutes of request.
3. Offline: The content is made available within 4 hours of request.

Advantage?

When you are storing content primarly for backup, you don’t need the backup system to be online. Files such as these can be moved to a disk which is later powered off: this benefits huge cost saving and is a greener approach.

Due to this innovative model, DiomedeStorage is able to offer services which are fraction of the cost of S3. Beautiful innovation

The post is interesting. Kenai.com as a cloud based project hosting infrastructure is interesting. But …

Given Oracle’s acquisition of SUN, I am quite unsure if Oracle would continue investing in a Kenai.com. Or, for that matter, in Netbeans (I am a Netbeans addict, and pray that they do it).

So what have I done? I have created an account in Kenai.com. But, for the moment I am not going to host any of my OpenSource initiatives in Kenai.com. Wait and see is the only thing I can do now.