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More on Amazon S3
I had lots more thoughts on Amazon S3 during yesterday. I think it’s a going to be a revolutionary service for small and medium-sized businesses. It’s worth signing up to just to experiment with the possibilities.
People have commented that the API seems fairly restrictive. My initial observation was that there was no support for searching, especially in the metadata. However, S3 is not a database, it’s a repository. You’d use it in conjunction with a database that you manage yourself.
There are code samples written in PHP, Perl, Java and, of course, Ruby.
I can envisage a Rails plugin appearing soon that provides ActiveRecord-friendly integration.
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