Replacing my home backup server with Amazon's S3 (by Jeremy Zawodny)Not too long ago, Amazon released their Simple Storage Service (or "S3" for short). It provides a hosted storage platform which developers can build all sorts of applications on top of. Smugmug, a popular photo sharing web site, is using it to store and host pictures. I've been considering using S3 as the backend to an on-line backup, since I'd been beating that for a while (see: Swimming Pools an
