Terrific eye-opener. And it led me to a Hypertext adventure of further learning about many of the Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies and vision. Well done. Thank you!

We've integrated S3 support into our Cardbox end-user database (http://www.cardbox.com). We now have an automated backup feature that copies all databases to a backup store on S3, automatically, at user-specified intervals. Because Cardbox is doing the backup itself, it can even back up databases that are currently open and being worked on. More at http://cardbox.wordpress.com/2006/06/13/amazon-s3-and-cardbox/.

The Amazon API is beautifully designed and beautifully documented: a pleasure to work with. But the best thing of all is that it's all automatic: "backup without doing backups"!

We've integrated S3 as the document storage for our Ratchet-X product and the results have been superb. The service is blazing fast and reliable. We've toyed in the past with the idea of adding document storage but hesitated because of the operational requirements. Amazon's S3 has removed this impediment thus allowing us to build a business grade storage service for our product with minimal effort. I highly recommend it.

Great article. More AJAX in action!

Great article. More AJAX in action!