Amazon S3
Amazon Adds S3 to their Management Console (and why this is important)
One of the best features of Amazon’s cloud-based storage and content delivery service, Simple Storage Service (S3), is it’s API. They’ve made it very easy to place, delete and share files from a variety of platforms. For the majority of work I do in S3, I use Panic’s excellent FTP-and-then-some client, Transmit. It treats S3′s [...]
Backup Your WordPress Installation Easily
Yesterday, Automattic, the company that brought you WordPress and hosts 10+ million blogs at WordPress.com, announced a new product called VaultPress, that will backup your WP install to the cloud. On their blog, they described VaultPress this way: The vision of VaultPress is to ensure that blogs and sites under its care are always completely [...]
Amazon Lowers Outgoing Bandwidth Pricing
Amazon has reduced the cost of bandwidth served out by its various web services, including S3, EC2 and their CloudFront content delivery network. Prices now start at $0.15 USD per GB for the first 10TB. This is down from $0.17USD per GB before. New prices for everything but CloudFront look like this now: Level Old [...]
