Backing up your data is important, we all know that. However, backing up is often complicated and if your data isn't backed up and then stored off-site (i.e. not where your computer is) then your back up isn't truly safe. Enter Amazon's S3 service. Amazon has a bevy of computers waiting to hold your precious data in a safe, redundant, and off-site manner. Amazon charges a very low rate for bandwidth and storage and the best thing is that they have an API for developers to code against.S3 Browser makes saving documents to and S3 'bucket' as simple as drag and drop. This app is open source, and started life as a diversion for the developer. Given those facts, S3 Browser is pretty slick.
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1-03-2007 @ 1:43PM
Tony Barnhill said...
Jungle Disk is a much better OS X compatible way to access the S3 data service than using a web browser.
http://www.jungledisk.com/
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1-03-2007 @ 1:45PM
nate said...
a handy tool for using S3 with your computer is a firefox extension called S3Fox. it makes things really really simple and easy (especially with permissions)
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1-03-2007 @ 9:58PM
Tod said...
Is S3 strictly for developers or can we regular Users buy into this. The pricing seems to be quite reasonable in comparison to, say, dot mac.
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