Happy New Year
and to make 2010 happier All Data Transfer In to Amazon S3 is Free until June 30th, 2010 
so if you plan to upload large amounts the window is open. Additionally, Amazon S3 EU WEST (Ireland) storage pricing has been reduced 15% to $0.15 (€0.10*) per GB. Also reducing from $0.012 to $0.010 (€0.07*) per 10,000 GET requests or 1,000 PUT requests.
Things I still need to do.
* approx coversion to euro on date of post
[Update 22.01.10]
Well work is so busy I haven’t had time to do a full write up on these items. But I can say that JungleDisk Server Edition [Linux] installed via RPM and was so easy to setup. I purchased the licence via my Amazon account and added it to an XML file, Hey Presto it was running. I downloaded a client for windows and my server was there waiting to interact and take backup instructions. The backups are scheduled and very painless. Well worth checking out. [btw I had tried to do this 6 months prior to November but it wasn't an available option for my server build]
The EC2 on EBS vols. well again cloud computing is maturing 6 months slower that when I hit it. When I first tried EC2 I couldn’t believe this wasn’t possible and now it is. The GUI makes it possible for less geeky CMD line folk to get what needs to be done done in a visual way. So I played around with it in the run up to Xmas and a bit over the break and can report that it is a major step forward in the Stop / Start usage of on demand computing. I need to have some small but more critical trials of this but I can’t see any draw backs!
Carbonite, PutPlace & JungleDisk. Well Peter@doop is testing Carbonite so I await his views on that, I have been using JungleDisk for a good while now and the new interface is a major step forward. I am backing up much more areas of disk now but nowhere near the amount of data Peter is syncing. I think asynchronous connections are a real pain when trying to upload massive amounts of data over broadband. If you do one thing in 2010, BACKUP! and do it before June 30th.
