I like the sound of Amazon's new S3 Simple Storage Service. I'm thinking this could be like a small/med business or consumer version of Akamai's Media Delivery service. With Amazon's model, you pay for what you use -- the amount of storage and bandwidth -- and you get access to Amazon's storage facilities, which should give you world class delivery speed and uptime.

Large business sites often use a service like Akamai's to handle the delivery of Media because the company can help offload the server demand for large bandwidth-consuming media, thus making sites load quicker. The "Akamized" site can then focus on delivery of content while Akamai's beefy and super fast servers fill in the media. The Amazon S3 service can be a boon to popular independent sites that are delivering rich media including audio and video, e.g. podcasts and streamcasts and you only pay for what you use. Very good stuff if you become popular and your little web host doesn't give you the bandwidth, storage and delivery you may need.