Don MacAskill, the founder of SmugMug, is preparing a talk on Amazon's S3 storage service for O'Reilly's ETech conference. He's written about it several times in the past:
And now he's looking for ideas of questions you'd like to see answered in his talk. Drop a comment on his blog if you have one (or more).
- Amazon S3: Outages, slowdowns, and problems
- Amazon S3: Show me the money
- Amazon + Two Guys + $0 = Next YouTube
- Amazon S3 = The Holy Grail
Also, I've written about S3 for non-business use in the past:
And have some more on that coming soon if I can find the time to write it up.
Posted by jzawodn at February 02, 2007 03:26 PM
S3 is a pretty good deal and offers great scalability for a smaller web site. We just started using them with Zooomr.
Looking forward to hearing more about your backup2s3 project - especially because I've decided to give it a try myself!