Amazon S3 : Interesting facts sheet

1. Amazon’s U.S.(United States) data-centers are in Virginia.
2. Amazon claims that the service is currently used by around 290,000 developers.
3. Amazon have till now stored more than 10 billion objects on their servers.
4. Launch in March 2006
5. 1 hardware device is available for amazon s3 Zettabyte Storage zBox
   
6. 32 s3 tools are available in market:
1. Backup Manager
2. Brackup
3. Bucket Explorer
4. Cockpit GUI
   
5. Data Bucket Pro
6. duplicity
7. filicio.us
8. InfiniteBit's S3-FTP
9. Interarchy 8
10. jets3t
11. JS3tream
12. jSh3ll
13. Jungle Disk
14. NS3
15. Openfount S3 Explorer
16. PutPlace
17. Quillen
18. S3 Backup
19. S3 Backup and S3 Webmaster (Maluke)
20. S3 Solutions
21. S3/fuse
22. S3Browse
23. s3DAV
24. S3Drive
25. s3fox
26. S3InfiDisk
27. S3Safe
28. S3Sync
29. s3sync.rb
30. Super Flexible File Synchronizer
31. SuperSync
32. Sync2S3
7. Various well known clients are:
1. SmugMug.com
2. wordpress.com
3. smartsheet.com
4. newyorktimes.com
   

Any European Software Developer or Business Now Has Easy Access to Highly Scalable, Reliable, Fast and Inexpensive Data Storage in the Cloud

Expensive Amazon S3 for Europeans

Cost Factor	Europe ($)	United States ($)	Difference ($)
Storage (per GB/Month)	0.18	0.15	0.03
Requests (Per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests)	0.012	0.010	0.002
Requests (Per10,000 GET and all other requests
Data Transfer (per GB - all data transfer)	0.10		0.00
per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer	0.18
next 40 TB / month data transfer	0.16
More then 50 TB / month data transfer	0.13

Here we can see, accept Data Transfer charges, other pricing factor have some difference due to some geographic regions.

Overall Amazon s3 will be quite expensive for European Users comparatively U.S. users.

But don’t worry, Bucket explorer helps you in cost cutting in your monthly Amazon s3 billings.

Bucket explorer knows which data should be transfer and how:

1. Amazon s3 charges us on every ACL update requests and suppose we are uploading same object which is already uploaded on Amazon s3. Here Amazon resets the ACL permissions while objects are overwritten. But Bucket explorer handles this situation by preserving the previous ACL permissions settings and saves your money.

2. Some times we are uploading same object more than two times. Here Bucket explorer checks and avoid unwanted upload download process and saves your unwanted data transfer. Even prompts you to overwrite with existing one. And If you by mistake clicks on "overwrite" or "Overwrite to all" button, Bucket Explorer will again checks and compare the objects on its bases and upload only those object which are really needed to be uploaded.

So have a Happy Billing :)

What’s New in the Bucket Explorer?

What’s New in the Bucket Explorer?

1. Latest version 2007.11.06.00 is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac users.
2. New Updated UI with enhanced Security features.
3. Latest Amazon S3’s Bucket explorer is also available for the U.S. and the EUROPEAN Customers.

Imagine the ability of Amazon s3’s simple storage service such as publish s3 content over the internet, access and share your data with others, track your account activity by logging, and you need to pay only for what you use and so on.

Now bucket explorer makes all these activities easier for all users like housewives, students / teachers, non professional users, businessmen, lawyers, doctors and so on. These users will also get some extra features in Amazon S3 by using the Bucket explorer like:

1. List only those buckets which are frequently accessed by you. It also speeds up your bucket listing process and you can perform your task as fast as possible.

2. Buckets are represented with various icons, like you can easily distinguish your friend's bucket from your bucket by different icons.

3. Set paginations for object listings. It helps when you have lots of images (10,000 or more) within a bucket. By using of pagination you can also improve you object listing speed.

4. Object filtration helps you to access list only required object or objects. It helps you while you have lots of images in various folders and directories.

5. Toggle view of tree view. You can see your local file system in tree and detailed view. In detailed view you can see the complete detailed of you local file system files and directories.

6. Let’s give a nick name (caption) to your Amazon s3 accounts to be able to easily recognize and distinguish your multiples of Amazon s3 account.

7. Upload or download entire folder structure with extensive reconnecting ability of the internet connection.it means, if internet connection breaks down, the Bucket Explorer attempts to re-connect the internet connection and proceeds with the remaining uploading or download the process.

8. Generate multiples of public URLs in single click.

9. Update entire folder or multiples files Access permissions with a single click, and so on.

Let’s take benefits up to December 31st, 2007. After that it may be payable.