{"id":1899,"date":"2007-11-08T22:02:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T02:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/08\/amazons-s3-almost-free-storage\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T22:02:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T02:02:47","slug":"amazons-s3-almost-free-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/08\/amazons-s3-almost-free-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s S3: Almost free storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember awhile back coming across a post that Nick Carr did about someone who was using Amazon&#8217;s S3 remote storage service to do backups, and wound up getting a bill for a month&#8217;s worth of charges for hosting his data &#8212; and it was a single cent (the original post by Dave Gurnell is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.untyped.com\/untyping\/archives\/2007\/08\/s3_doesnt_count.html\">here,<\/a> and Nick&#8217;s post is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/storage_too_che.php\">here<\/a>). I thought at the time that it was pretty impressive, so I created an Amazon Web Services account.<\/p>\n<p>I downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jungledisk.com\">JungleDisk<\/a>, a backup\/storage app that acts as a front-end to S3. Then I uploaded a whole pile of photos as a test, which worked flawlessly, with my JungleDisk files and folders showing up as a network drive in Windows and a WebDav remote share in Linux and the usual drag-and-drop to add or move files and so on. A little while ago I got my first monthly bill from Amazon: 75 cents. Not bad.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember awhile back coming across a post that Nick Carr did about someone who was using Amazon&#8217;s S3 remote storage service to do backups, and wound up getting a bill for a month&#8217;s worth of charges for hosting his data &#8212; and it was a single cent (the original post by Dave Gurnell is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/08\/amazons-s3-almost-free-storage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon&#8217;s S3: Almost free storage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}