Comments on: Simple online storage with Amazon’s S3 http://creatingwithcode.com/howto/simple-off-site-storage-with-amazon-s3/ A blog by Robert (Marty) McGuire Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:44:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Getting Started With Web Video, Part 2: Video Hosting and Distribution | snowcaplabs.com http://creatingwithcode.com/howto/simple-off-site-storage-with-amazon-s3/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Getting Started With Web Video, Part 2: Video Hosting and Distribution | snowcaplabs.com Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:23:23 +0000 http://creatingwithcode.com/?p=5#comment-14 [...] Again, this is beyond the scope of this article, but there’s an excellent write-up on using Amazon S3 here, and it works as simply as the FTP method once it’s set [...] [...] Again, this is beyond the scope of this article, but there’s an excellent write-up on using Amazon S3 here, and it works as simply as the FTP method once it’s set [...]

]]> By: schmarty http://creatingwithcode.com/howto/simple-off-site-storage-with-amazon-s3/comment-page-1/#comment-5 schmarty Thu, 22 May 2008 13:56:30 +0000 http://creatingwithcode.com/?p=5#comment-5 Those are good questions, Amy. Amazon's infrastructure services were originally developed internally for Amazon's own use. As they attempted to scale their online store across the globe, they found that each "team" responsible for different parts of Amazon's online presence was spending a huge amount of money and effort on simply storing data and keeping servers running. They built their storage and cloud computing services (among others) to solve these problems, and realized that they might help solve other people's problems as well. You can find a bit more information in this Intruders.TV interview with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels: http://us.intruders.tv/Werner-Vogels-on-Amazon-Web-Services_a227.html As for the sharing/reading of data, the Web Services Customer Agreement (here, though this URL may move: http://www.amazon.com/AWS-License-home-page-Money/b/ref=sc_fe_c_0_16427261_10?ie=UTF8&node=3440661&no=16427261&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA) states that Amazon's rights to use the content that you put on S3 is limited to their storing it and shipping it to you and your applications. They do warn that while they do their best do protect it, they make no guarantees that their API offers full protection against unauthorized access (and suggest using encryption if you have very sensitive data). Those are good questions, Amy.

Amazon’s infrastructure services were originally developed internally for Amazon’s own use. As they attempted to scale their online store across the globe, they found that each “team” responsible for different parts of Amazon’s online presence was spending a huge amount of money and effort on simply storing data and keeping servers running. They built their storage and cloud computing services (among others) to solve these problems, and realized that they might help solve other people’s problems as well. You can find a bit more information in this Intruders.TV interview with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels: http://us.intruders.tv/Werner-Vogels-on-Amazon-Web-Services_a227.html

As for the sharing/reading of data, the Web Services Customer Agreement (here, though this URL may move: http://www.amazon.com/AWS-License-home-page-Money/b/ref=sc_fe_c_0_16427261_10?ie=UTF8&node=3440661&no=16427261&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA) states that Amazon’s rights to use the content that you put on S3 is limited to their storing it and shipping it to you and your applications. They do warn that while they do their best do protect it, they make no guarantees that their API offers full protection against unauthorized access (and suggest using encryption if you have very sensitive data).

]]> By: Amy http://creatingwithcode.com/howto/simple-off-site-storage-with-amazon-s3/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Amy Thu, 22 May 2008 13:31:20 +0000 http://creatingwithcode.com/?p=5#comment-4 Why does Amazon bother offering storage solutions? How much do you believe they aren't going to share/read your data? Why does Amazon bother offering storage solutions?

How much do you believe they aren’t going to share/read your data?

]]> By: loren http://creatingwithcode.com/howto/simple-off-site-storage-with-amazon-s3/comment-page-1/#comment-2 loren Wed, 21 May 2008 15:35:31 +0000 http://creatingwithcode.com/?p=5#comment-2 For your readers who have Macs, they may prefer this piece of software: http://people.no-distance.net/ol/software/s3/ I have started using it myself, really makes S3 file management easy. It's also nice for developers because it's also open source. So if you're interested in learning about the implementation of these topics in Objective-C, it's all there for the browsing. Great post! For your readers who have Macs, they may prefer this piece of software:
http://people.no-distance.net/ol/software/s3/

I have started using it myself, really makes S3 file management easy. It’s also nice for developers because it’s also open source. So if you’re interested in learning about the implementation of these topics in Objective-C, it’s all there for the browsing.

Great post!

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