Amazon Web Services

Introduction text.

S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) provides a simple web-services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, secure, fast, inexpensive infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.

AWS Free Tier includes 5GB storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests with Amazon S3.

http://aws.amazon.com/s3/

s3cmd
S3cmd is a tool for managing objects in Amazon S3 storage. It allows for making and removing "buckets" and uploading, downloading and removing "objects" from these buckets. It runs on Linux and Mac.

http://s3tools.org

HOWTO: Create A Bucket
s3cmd mb s3://uniquename.subname.whatever

HOWTO: List Buckets
s3cmd ls

HOWTO: Upload Files
s3cmd put --recursive --dry-run ~/folder s3://uniquename.subname.whatever/

HOWTO: Sync Files
s3cmd sync --verbose ~/folder s3://uniquename.subname.whatever/

HOWTO: Fix: WARNING: Redirected To
Replace the bucket_host in the .s3cfg file with the one from the warning.

~/.s3cfg host_bucket = %(bucket)s.s3-external-3.amazonaws.com

Thanks - http://serverfault.com/questions/330453/s3cmd-fails-too-many-times

Simple Monthly Calculator
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html