Using Amazon S3 to serve large video files
If you’re already using Amazon’s Simple Storage Servce (S3), you probably already know this, but I didn’t so I’m pretty jazzed.I’m using S3 to off-load some bandwidth from our respective networks. So far, I’m very pleased with the performance and the very low cost of the service.
If you have a file in S3, you can access it from a browser or web page, but if you add “?torrent” to any URL, S3 and Amazon will automatically create a torrent file for you including a tracker. That way, you can seed the file and then let the BitTorrent network take over and handle file transfer. This would be incredibly useful for offloading large video files or other large files you want to distribute.
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