Patent ID: 11895188
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. A system for providing arbitrary amounts of reliable storage accessible from any location, the system comprising:
means for receiving web services calls from at least one client;
means for storing a data object in response to a web services call, wherein the web services call references a namespace corresponding to a user of the data storage web service and a key corresponding to the data object, and wherein the stored data object is addressable using the namespace and the key;
means for storing one or more replicas of the data object in one or more of a plurality of distributed storage nodes; and
means for storing information characteristic of an actual usage of the data storage web service, wherein the actual usage is based, at least in part, upon the web services call.