Jeremy Zawodny is replacing his home backup server with Amazon's S3. ⇒
5 October 2006, the wee hours
Has anyone seen any really cool services that use S3?
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
JungleDisk and filicious are the obvious ones (i.e. file storage).
If you’re looking for something different (aside from SmugMug which the link mentions), there’s CDN.
Amazon pairs it with EC2 too.
by Ryan on October 5 2006, 10:46 am #
Cool stuff. I think I might try backing up my photos to Amazon S3. That’s the one thing I’m particularly paranoid about saving. I wish Transmit would let you connect to Amazon S3 the same way Interarchy apparently does.
by ramanan on October 5 2006, 7:43 pm #
I work in web services now, eh?
by Ryan on October 6 2006, 6:55 am #
Poor payments. Can you tell us about all the cool new web services coming our way?
by ramanan on October 6 2006, 7:45 am #
I’ve only started on Monday, so I don’t know very much yet.
by Ryan on October 6 2006, 11:11 am #
Does S3 provide recoverable backups by default? Why else would you replace your local backup then?
by Sunny on October 11 2006, 8:54 am #
I guess what I am really asking what is the redundancy & availability of S3. Exactly how reliable is it?
by Sunny on October 11 2006, 8:57 am #
Very reliable: It is apparently what Amazon uses to store shit, and has the same uptime as Amazon itself.
by ramanan on October 11 2006, 9:03 am #
sunny,
data is stored in multiple datacenters, so unless kim jong il nuked all of them, your data would still exist. As for availability, S3’s uptime goal is 99.99% though there’s no SLA on that. None the less, you should expect uptime as good as Amazon.com.
the guy from smugmug wrote up a post about why they’re using S3.
by awardtour on October 11 2006, 11:15 pm #