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Amazon S3 - Anyone use it?

Cromulent

Cromulent

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I'm thinking of signing up for Amazon S3 for remote backups. Does anyone here use it at all? What is the service like?

Any information about them is appreciated.
 
I use jungledisk for backing up my photos ... it uses S3 for the backend. SE is cheap (about $1/month for the amount I've uploaded so far) and reliable.

Are you thinking of using a third party application for backups or rolling your own? S3 seems to have a pretty well developed API. I thought about writing my own application for the hell of it, but the amount of time needed to produce something reliable put me off that idea quickly)
 
plinden said:
I use jungledisk for backing up my photos ... it uses S3 for the backend. SE is cheap (about $1/month for the amount I've uploaded so far) and reliable.

Are you thinking of using a third party application for backups or rolling your own? S3 seems to have a pretty well developed API. I thought about writing my own application for the hell of it, but the amount of time needed to produce something reliable put me off that idea quickly)
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Initially I was just going to use Cyberduck and manually backup my data but in the long term I was planning on integrating it into my website.
 
I've used S3 on a few projects, it worked really well as a cheaper method of serving up images. For backup purposes, it might not be ideal, as anything you upload is going to publicly visible.

If you're in search of a secure backup solution, why not just get a Time Capsule or Drobo?
 
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