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Backing up Flickr photos with Amazon S3

by Jordan Running on March 22, 2006 at 03:35 PM

People are slowly but surely figuring out what S3, Amazon's new "Simple Storage Service," is good for. Blogger and developer Matt Croydon has written a quick (25 lines!) Python script that automatically backs up his photos from Flickr to S3. Cool. "After uploading 160 or so photos to Amazon, Croydon writes, "I owe them about a penny." I think that putting raw resources like storage, bandwidth, and infrastructure behind a professional-grade API for bargain-basement prices as Amazon has done is brilliant, and is going to spawn a lot of fascinating projects in the near future.

Tags: amazon, api, backup, flickr, python, s3, storage

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orangeguruMar 23rd 2006 1:25PM

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I am really wondering who's Amazone's target audience here? For normal people this is too complicated and uninteresting - free webspace and homepage offers will satisfy them. Professionals? Hardly. If you need real storage space and performance you also want control. Most people rather go for dedicated root servers with unlimited traffic and raid systems.

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