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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), provides secure, reliable, scalable cloud storage. Amazon S3 is easy to use, with a simple web services interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. With Amazon S3, you pay only for the storage you actually use. There is no minimum fee and no setup cost.

With S3 you can store as much data as you want on distributed servers. S3 is designed to provide 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability over one year.  For those worried about secured access to the data, it is possible, with adding a simple parameter to the upload command, to encrypt the stored data.

To use S3 you need an Amazon AWS account.  It costs nothing and for the first year of S3 storage.  There are limits on the free storage.  See http://aws.amazon.com/free/

You can create and manage your account at http://aws.amazon.com/

One important part of AWS is security.  You can create multiple 'users' for accessing a single AWS account.  It is highly recommended that you do this.

There is an extensive example supplied with Clarion 10 showing all the features of the Clarion S3 interface, including the ability to start an upload or download and let the transfer continue in the background while your end-user continues working.

Some possible uses for this system include:

. Automatic backups to the internet

. Automatic program updates

. Update images used in your program

. News feeds

Some useful links are:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/awsgsg-intro/gsg-aws-what-services-first.html  (Introduction to AWS in particular security)

http://aws.amazon.com/s3/getting-started/  (For using the Web interface to your S3 data)

Example:

The Amazon S3 example is located in Example\AWS   (S3example.sln)