Amazon Simple Storage

I have recently been playing with Amazon's Simple Storage Solution or "S3". The service provides users with unlimited, secure and reliable storage for about 10 US dollar cents per gig per month. Which is cheap. The service is aimed at developers and does not provided would be "home" users with any front ends for uploading or downloading files. Only API's. The service supports REST and SOAP and is pretty easy to use, once you have got your head around signing your requests.

I have developed a "home user friendly" Windows and Linux compatible front end for the service which can be used to browse your storage area, upload, download and delete files. It looks similar to Windows Explorer and supports drag and drop. The software (River Drive) can be found over at www.TristanPhillips.com under the projects section. To use the software you will need to sign up to the S3 service, but you only pay for what you use, and there is no minimum charge.