Amazon S3

March 14th, 2006

Amazon S3 was just released today, giving developers/companies the ability to instantly store files/data up to 5GB in size - and as many as you want. They just charge pennies for bandwidth and storage costs.

Are you looking for a new way to make money?

• Amazon S3 Perl Library + IO::All::LWP + MogileFS Perl Module = Always-on File Hosting
• Amazon S3 Perl Library + Filesys::Virtual + Net::DAV::Server + Do it yourself .MAC = Permanent, Cheap, .Mac
• Amazon S3 Java Library + Cross Platform Drag and Drop = Reliable, cross-platform, backups with instant retreival.

Wrap a quick reverse proxy on top of the public S3 URLs, require any of the above to use a secure password, charge $X dollars/month. Presto, instant data storage company.

Tags: amazon, s3, java, programming, perl, lazyweb

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Amazon Redesign

April 6th, 2005

Parts of the new Amazon page design have started to creep out and I'm finding the results to be really interesting. I'm so use to the old design, it's really going to take some getting used to.

I don't particularlly agree with how it looks. I think it feels very clunky and they could've outlined the site priorities a little bit better - but they're the marketing genius' who get the money coming in, so who am I to complain.

Supposedly, Amazon sends around quite a few iterations of their page to small testbeds of customers (without their knowing) - I'd be curious to see what sort of changes they make and how that effects sales.

Tags: css, amazon, redesign, html

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