betaflow.com — To put it simply, S3 is an infinitely large hard drive, available to developers at a dirt cheap price - don?t forget Amazon?s industry leading infrastructure that will ensure speedy transfers and reliability. Developers have the ability to read, write, and delete an unlimited number of files, via SOAP and REST interfaces, up to 5GB in size!
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Closed AccountMar 15, 2006
Yeah, but do you want to write code to utilize their API to backup your data? Then you're talking about 40 cents worth of data and who knows how long writing your application? :)I wonder if they will allow you to write your own applications and sell them - so if someone wanted to write a gmail/xdrive style application for use with Amazon...I read through most of their terms of service agreement, but...
cosmicjusticeMar 15, 2006
Your example (storing 40GB for a year with only 1 up/download) is not a very good one. A 40 gb USB drive is about $100 and can be locked up off site, and you don't have to rely on anybody else to make it available to you.
davdavMar 15, 2006
One file is 5gbrtfa
spadinMar 15, 2006
It's actually not that bad of a deal. This would be a great for something like a flickr-like startup. A linux distro might be good to put here too. You can put the file and the BT tracker on there and relieve some of the bandwidth cost as well.
cdunnMar 15, 2006
thats a bunch of bulls**t.name one host that gives you 160gb of storage and *****2000GB****** of bandwidth for $150...unless you are talking about some hole in the wall run on a t1 by some teenagersRELIABLE dedicated hosting costs you no where below $100 for like 50gb of transfer
hongingMar 15, 2006
Continue reading the TOS:(<a class="user" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=sc_fe_c_0_16427261_5/103-2158293-2851027?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=3440661&no=16427261)">http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=sc_fe_c_0_16427261_5/103-2158293-2851027?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=3440661&no=16427261)</a>B. Amazon S3 - Simple Storage Service*snip*2) The limitation of 1 call/per second/per IP address set forth in Section 1.A.2 above is not applicable to your use of Amazon S3. You may not, however, store "objects" (as described in the user documentation) that contain more than 5 Gigabytes of data, or own more than 100 "buckets" (as described in the user documentation) at any one time.*snip*-------------Basically, no limitations. Those only apply to other AWS.
amoebaMar 16, 2006
Lucky this quote isn't taken out of context :"The system considers the failure of components to be a normal mode of operation.."( <a class="user" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/102-7042892-2853716?node=16427261">http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/102-7042892-2853716?node=16427261</a> )
atrerraMar 16, 2006
I think you can serve files publicly (without a user logging into amazon) as long as your permissions on the 'object' permit this, and you have to generate the url (which contains a key). I'm not entirely sure on this though.. anyone?