Adam Selipsky, vice president of product management and developer relations for Amazon Web Services, said the new service will provide organizations with a high performance method of distributing content to end users, giving customers low latency and high data transfer rates when they access an organization’s objects. The initial release will help developers and businesses who need to deliver popular, publicly readable content over HTTP connections, he said.

“Our goal is to create a content delivery service that: Lets developers and businesses get started easily--there are no term contracts, and no commitments. You will only pay for what you actually use,” said a letter to customers from the Amazon Web Services Team.

Moreover, the service is simple and easy to use--a single, simple API call is all that is needed to get started delivering content. And the service works seamlessly with Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service). This provides users with durable storage for the original, definitive versions of their files while making the content delivery service easier to use. 

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