Amazon.com just announced SimpleDB, a new offering in their Amazon Web Services line of products. Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. It is ideally positioned to be used along side of EC2, their Elastic Cloud service, and S3, the Simple Storage service.

A lot of people have been asking for a structured data solution that is scalable and redundant. From a quick-look first glance it looks like SimpleDB is going to provide that answer. SimpleDB is not based on a relational database format but more of an open and flexible format that removes the need to maintain a schema, instead providing the flexibility to make modifications and adjustments as you go.

I’m not sure how all of this will work, but I’m certainly looking forward to getting my hands on an early beta.