Nathan Colgate Clark gives a general overview of his Amazon S3 upload plugin (past, present, and future) and shares his thoughts on how it managed to stand out on GitHub.

Trustworthy Online Backup

During this screencast, we’ll build a fully-functioning Rails application that acts as a simple file-upload service, much like You Send It, or Mega File Upload.
Along the way, we’ll cover the most-important parts of S3, and an incredible gem that abstracts away the messy details.

For close to 17 years Interarchy has been the leading Mac FTP client. First released in 1993, Interarchy has been used by hundreds of thousands of Mac users to upload, download and transfer files across the Internet.

The second problem you’ll face when building an application to handle files is where and how to store them. Thankfully there are lots of well-supported options, each with their own pros and cons.

Time Warp provides a simple to use offsite backup that complements Mac OS X Leopard Time Machine ®.

OS X Time Machine's automatic backup provides unprecedented simplicity for protecting your data. However the critical missing piece of the backup puzzle is offsite backups, to protect against risks such as fire, theft and natural disasters.

With Time Warp, your personal files within your latest Time Machine backup are securely encrypted and uploaded nightly to your private Amazon.com Simple Storage Service (S3) account. Compression and intelligent filtering keeps backup costs low.

Create HTML POST forms that allow your web site visitors to upload files into your S3 account using a standard web browser.

S3Hub allows you to view your S3 online storage, upload, download, set permissions, share with friends and more.

This brief tutorial introduces you to Amazon Web Services from the eyes of a Ruby developer, walks through a simple example, and links to other helpful resources to get you started.

A Ruby Library for Amazon's Simple Storage Service's (S3) REST API.