The internets are all abuzz this morning about the new Amazon Cloud Player - a new service that seems to echo the old LaLa service a bit. You are given 5 gigs of storage with Amazon and can upload music there to be listened to from anywhere with a connection. Purchases from the Amazon MP3 store don't count towards your storage limit. The web interface looks just as you'd expect it to and there's some software you can nab to upload tracks from your computer to your cloud. There's also plenty of help if you're having issues as well. The software has some odd behavior but it's a first release, so I assume it will only improve.

On the whole, I'm pleased to see this come to light. Amazon is perfectly poised to launch such a thing and I'm glad they did. The service is not available on iOS devices so you better believe this puts the heat on for Apple to get their new MobileMe services churned out (at least, as far as I can predict). Regardless of mobile access, I am more and more open to embracing the cloud for music storage.