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Data Storage in Amazon SimpleDB vs. Data Storage in Amazon S3

Unlike Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB is not storing raw data. Rather, it takes your data as input and expands it to create indices across multiple dimensions, which enables you to quickly query that data. Additionally, Amazon S3 and Amazon SimpleDB use different types of physical storage. Amazon S3 uses dense storage drives that are optimized for storing larger objects inexpensively. Amazon SimpleDB stores smaller bits of data and uses less dense drives that are optimized for data access speed.

In order to optimize your costs across AWS services, large objects or files should be stored in Amazon S3, while smaller data elements or file pointers (possibly to Amazon S3 objects) are best saved in Amazon SimpleDB. Because of the close integration between services and the free data transfer within the AWS environment, developers can easily take advantage of both the speed and querying capabilities of Amazon SimpleDB as well as the low cost of storing data in Amazon S3, by integrating both services into their applications.

For the Beta release, a single Amazon SimpleDB domain may grow to 10 GB and you are initially allocated a maximum of 100 domains; however, over time these allocations may be raised. Please complete this form if you require additional domains.

でかいデータはS3、ポインタ情報の様な小さいデータはSimpleDB。