Amazon Simple DB launches soon

Amazon Web Services has been providing some really powerful web infrastructure solutions at low cost for some time, and Amazon is about to add a database feature to their current offerings. SimpleDB looks like a robust database feature that will allow companies to leverage Amazon's computing environment to great advantage. From Amazon's SimpleDB page:

Amazon SimpleDB is easy to use and provides the core functionality of a database - real-time lookup and simple querying of structured data - without the operational complexity. Amazon SimpleDB requires no schema, automatically indexes your data and provides a simple API for storage and access.

If you have any questions about this feature you'll want to contact Jeff Barr, Amazon's excellent Web Services evangelist and a fine Web 2.0 Renaissance man as well.