Enterprises that want to share and store files online have yet another option now that Amazon Web Services has opened its Zocalo service to general availability.

This year, Amazon has put greater focus on services aimed directly at end users. Besides Zocalo, it has come out with hosted WorkSpaces virtual desktops. There is already heavy competition in this area from Dropbox, Google, Microsoft and VMware, among others.

Amazon announced Zocalo in July and pitched the service as an enterprise-friendly way to store and share files. It lets administrators control security policies, user access and storage limits. Administrators can configure policies to prevent employees from sharing documents externally, for example. Integration with Active Directory is possible thanks to the Connect feature.

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