Anywhere, Anytime Storage and Retrieval with Amazon's S3
Amazon's S3 storage service adds to the already-long list of places for storing data—but provides the advantages of location-independent, always-available access. Build this S3 client application and perform your own storage tests.
by Michael Jones
May 10, 2006
n March of this year, Amazon.com opened its servers to developers with an online-storage offering. As described in a previous DevX news article, Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service (S3) provides access to a large volume of storage capacity using a relatively simple Web-services API. Unofficial testing of the service proves that it is fast enough to support applications requiring near real-time access to data. Further, the service's pricing makes it a great option for a diverse set of applications requiring fast and reliable online-storage.
Amazon's S3 offering is only the most recent step in a larger trek to provide a wide range of developer-facing services. Among Amazon.com's current Web service offerings are the E-Commerce Service (access extensive information about books, music, movies that Amazon sells), Historical Pricing (provides historical sales information and volume), and the Alexa line of offerings (enables developers to build custom search engines based on an extensive repository of Web pages and associated information available on the Internet). Amazon also has the Amazon Simple Queue Service and the Mechanical Turk Service in beta at the moment.
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n March of this year, Amazon.com opened its servers to developers with an online-storage offering. As described in a previous 
