Testing Amazon S3

Posted February 16, 2008

With Transmit, using Amazon's Simple Storage Service is as easy as FTP. Your data on S3 is organized into "buckets", which is nothing more than a fancy name for a top-level folder. Buckets help organizing the data into groups, for which you are then later billed individually.

Data uploaded to S3 is by default only readable by you. To make it accessible to the public, mark it as readable by anyone in Transmit:

Your files are then accessible under http://s3.amazonaws.com/ + bucket_name + /path/to/your/file. I am hosting this image from this website as a test.

Comments

  1. on 16 Feb 2008 at 5:00 pm cocaman

    are you really going to use s3/aws? i am looking for a cool idea to use it for a while, but haven't come up with one.

    right now i am using it for backing up 200mb of files...

  2. on 17 Feb 2008 at 10:28 pm Daniel Lorch

    Well, there's Jungle Disk which is quite nice.

    And I believe that the bandwidth prices are quite competitive. For example panic.com 'outsources' their downloads to AWS.

    But other than that, I don't see a real use. And DreamHost.com is cheaper if you need a lot of online disk drive (500 gigs for $5.95/mo).

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