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
