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Re:Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free by rogerthat on Friday October 02, 2009 @10:24PM (#858410)
Can you upload files to SimpleDB and use it as a free alternative to Amazon S3? I imagine not but I'm curious anyway.
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Re:Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free by qhoxie on Friday October 02, 2009 @10:33PM (#858420)
The only way to achieve this would be to shard the file across multiple entries. The limit per is 1k, so I doubt it would fit your needs. There is also a hard limit of 1gb per domain, which is not difficult to run up against if you treat it as a more generic data store.
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Re:Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free by rogerthat on Friday October 02, 2009 @10:38PM (#858430)
It figures - I wouldn't expect them to canabalize S3. Thanks for the details though.
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