Seattle - Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN) is preparing to launch its own content delivery network service, aiming to offer even smaller websites faster, more efficient delivery of their media and other content to end users, Webmonkey reports, citing a post on the Amazon Web Services blog.

According to Webmonkey, Amazon's plan is to make the service as affordable and easy to use as possible, offering a pay-as-you-go model, and setup that requires simply uploading files to its S3 storage service, and adding a single line API call to activate the service.

While Amazon will be targeting smaller companies as customers of its service, slated to launch before the end of the year, it will be competing with established firms that include Akamai, Limelight Networks and CDNetworks.

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/3rkq6 (Amazon Web Services blog)

http://snipurl.com/3rkqh (Webmonkey)