Jungle Disk
A colleague punted this over to me the other day: Jungle Disk. It uses Amazon’s S3 developer orientated online storage service to provide an online file locker to Joe Public. I’m In The Trade???????, so I had to have a look. It’s quite nice, if all you want is a place to drag and drop files just in case your PC blows up… but it’s only the beginning.
There’s a slight wrinkle though. It may not be against the word to Amazon’s TOS, but it could be against their spirit. My interpretation of Amazon’s intentions is that S3 is for use as online storage for applications that need a centralised data store, as opposed to the storage being the product. It’ll be interesting to see what happens over the next few months…
By gary | 29. May 2006 | Internet | No Comments »