S3 Drive - Mount your Amazon S3 Space as a Windows Network Drive

Amazon S3Drive [GD: Link is now dead and gone... See Update below]

That's kind of cool.

"Access Amazon Storage Service S3 with SUCHWERK technology.

Amazon offers with S3 a 'infinitley large large web storage', why not using this space as a 'infinitely large disk device' and getting a great backup/share device almost for free.

All you need is a file system driver to access the S3 storage easily, here comes the S3Drive software in place. It simulates a local network drive but actualy stores the files on the S3 space. You can handle it like any other network drive on a Windows machine. It works in a DOS box and can be access from every program or any programming language that can access files.

Check it out, it's free! ..."

I do wish the source was available so I could do a security review on it (that and more importantly see how they are using .Net to implement this... ;)

In any case, this something to keep an eye on as it moves toward release...

(via Larkware News - The Daily Grind 1030)

Update 8/16/2010:
This link, site, utility, S3Drive, seems to be dead and gone... :(

But don't despair.

Another product that does something very much like it is available at http://tntdrive.com/. It's not free (well there IS a free trial version ;) but it is at least active, alive and getting constant TLC from its developers.


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