Five Nines for Five Dimes

Contributors Rizwan Mallal and Mamoon Yunus recently ran some perf tests on Amazon's Simple Storage Service and gave it high marks for robustness and response times. It seems that S3 is a bargain to boot--the cost for two weeks of extensive testing was just half a buck. Also, check out Eric Bergman-Terrell's article, Synchronizing files with .NET 2.0, S3, and FTP. Eric pairs up S3 with the FtpWebRequest class in .NET to create a utility for syncing files across multiple machines.

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