"A grunt task to automate moving files to/from Amazon S3."

Obviously not. But some ideas for using short expiry URLs as an alternative, for when clients really don't understand the "publishing things on the internets" scenario.

"The world's largest independent film community".

While it's frustrating to think of any hosting provider cutting services to a website because it considers the content too politically volatile or controversial, it's especially disheartening to see Amazon knuckle under to pressure from a single senator. Other Internet intermediaries should now expect to receive a phone call when some other member of Congress is unhappy with speech they are hosting. After all, it worked on Amazon.

"A utility for arming (creating) many bees (micro EC2 instances) to attack (load test) targets (web applications)"

"Transparently integrates with your WordPress blog. File uploads are automatically saved into your Amazon S3 bucket without any extra steps. Once saved, these files will be delivered by Amazon S3, instead of your web host."

"Today's big news is that Amazon are going to start selling Kindle ebook readers world-wide. Let me explain why I think this is very bad news for writers."

Jeremy Keith's notes from Jared Spool's talk at An Event Apart Boston.

Spool's excellent talk on Amazon from An Event Apart Boston.

"Journalism has been crowdsourced before, but it’s the scale of the Guardian’s project — 170,000 documents reviewed in the first 80 hours, thanks to a visitor participation rate of 56 percent — that’s breathtaking." Brilliant.

"A robust and unintrusive backup system for Mac OS X Leopard, which can be used either as a System Preferences pane or directly as a command line tool."

No gzip on Cloudfront (yet); suggested workaround.

"A web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments." Beaut.

New music site from IMDb and Amazon; pulls data from Musicbrainz, Wikipedia and various other places.

"This tutorial will take you through all the necessary steps for setting up Django with a persistent PostgreSQL database on AWS. I will be assuming no prior knowledge of AWS,"

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

"Amazon is ahead of the competition when it comes to selling physical goods over the web - so it is galling when the company gets it so wrong with digital downloads, says Cory Doctorow"

"This article walks through the steps necessary for hosting media files for your web site using Amazon S3."

"High Scalability offers some secrets to Amazon’s success based on interviews and writings of early employees." Some great tips in here.

"Amazon Web Services provides developers with direct access to Amazon's robust technology platform. Build on Amazon's suite of web services to enable and enhance your applications."

Oooh look, the new Cursor Miner album is out June 5th!

"First concept, photographic books, to encourage number and language development and promote thinking and observation skills."

"Lynn Holdsworth, our RNIB web savvy demonstrator, [demolished] several well known sites like amazon.co.uk (which no one really liked anyway) and google.com (which nearly everyone liked a lot)."