The blog of George Pearce
Posted in Online on Sep 23rd, 2008
I just logged into my AWS account, to check how much I’ve spent on s3 this month, and I’ve just realised that the look has totally changed. In a good way, though.
I like the new design, especially the use of tabbing and javascript - they’ve crammed a lot of information in, and still made it [...]
Posted in Technology on Aug 2nd, 2008
A while ago, I wrote a post about my thoughts on S3, a storage service from Amazon. Well, now I’ve decided that I’m going to setup some / most of the images from GPearce to load from S3, for two reasons. First, images seem to load faster from S3 than they do from the server [...]
It looks like Amazon S3 has gone down, which is the first time since I started using it extensively. It’s a pain, because I was going to upload a massive bunch of pictures :(
UPDATE: It’s coming back. Yay!
Posted in Technology on Jun 16th, 2008
Today, I spent a bit of time playing with S3 (simple storage service), a service run by Amazon. I only really thought about it recently after I helped someone I’m working for to make videos run from it.
The main bonus of S3 is that it’s cheap, and unlimited. You only pay per what you use [...]