[SATLUG] Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3)...

[Robert Pearson]

On 11/4/06, John Pappas <j at jvpappas.net> wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I have been playing with AWS S3 lately.  Has anyone else?  What other
> online storage services are you all using, if any?
>
> For those of you who may not know of this service, it is a pay to use
> online storage service.  Current rates are $0.17/GB/Month and $0.20/GB
> transferred.
>
> I love it.

The AWS S3 service is compared to other Online Storage services in a
table on the SATLUG Wiki at:
<<http://www.satlug.org/wiki/index.php/Store_It_on_the_Web>>

The AWS S3 service is listed as just S3.
There are several pointers to source articles and to the AWS S3 service.

This table was created for update by members of SATLUG so feel free to
add Online Storage services as you find them.

> Long story follows.
>
> Unfortunately, as this is only a web service, one must acquire an
> application to access this web service.  There are several, I am using
> JungleDisk.  The problem with jungledisk is that you can only access via
> Localhost WebDAV (Konquerer).  I did some looking around, and installed
> FUSE (Userspace FileSystem Framework) and Fuse_KIO (KDE Plugin based on
> fuse that maps any KIO_Slave Process (FISH, WebDav, etc) as a mount
> point.
>
> So I now regularly use 2 FUSE mounts, a FISH (FS via SSH) and S3 via
> JungleDisk WebDAV via FUSE_KIO.  I admit, this is a bit kludgey, but I
> did not want to develop an app by hand (or have my wife do it ;)
>
> I did some speed testing, and I get 100% bandwidth utilization on both
> ups and downs (Work=T1 (1.5Mb) & Home=TWC Cable (1Mb/8Mb))
>
> Point in this exercise?  Cheap online backup/storage.  All told,
> Assuming that you upload a GB and download it twice in a month, total
> cost is $0.77/GB/Month.  In my case, I intend to upload once and
> (ideally) never download it (a backup method only), I will spend about
> $0.37/GB/Month.  I could not find an UNLIMITED use, fast, online storage
> service for any less than $1/GB/Month.  If anybody is using one, please
> let me know.
>
> Thanks for listening!
> John

Thanks for the feedback, John.
Maybe we can add this to the SATLUG Wiki Online Storage services page.
For example, we need to add a column listing the application software
necessary to access this web service software.
Plus any user comments.