Amazon S3 and BitTorrent
The Tech Crunch folks published a nice review of Amazon S3 grid storage. But they totaly [sic] missed what’s so cool about it. If you read beyond the standard features about price and storage you will find out why it’s really the killer app. Take a look at the developer documentation and have a look at the last section entitled “Using BitTorrent with S3“. That’s right Amazon S3 supports BitTorrent, it will create and seed your object(file).
