I have been looking into Amazon’s S3 (Service (?)) the last couple days. It is a really cool service because Amazon allows you to post ANY kind of data to their servers for the low cost of $0.15 per GB every month and $0.10 per GB transfer. It was designed to allow web designers to have a place to put their content and it’s designed to scale well and with data redundancy. Other programmers have used it for other purposes and I’m currently testing a Backup solution that uses S3 to hold the data and at a low cost it has been really nice. I think the most interesting thing is that you can set very basic permissions on the files that any file I upload from my backup is marked as not readable but they can be set so the file can be viewed by anyone.

I have been very happy so far and I’m going to keep messing around with it. The following picture is my test to see how well it works on an actual webpage.