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I have successfully used Amazon’s Simple Storage Service for the first time. It’s one of those things that’s been on my to do list, but I just never got around to it. However, in the next week or two, I’ll be contracting to build a really simple small website and I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to use S3. But before that, I needed to test it out, and this morning was the perfect time to do so:

So I created a bucket on S3, and uploaded some of the stylesheets from this site to format it. Looks pretty good if you ask me. Although to really get it right I need to tweak the html some more, but for testing purposes it was perfect.

I had some starts and stop with S3 trying to figure out how to use it. Some of the references I used are:

• Adrian Holovaty’s “How I’m using Amazon S3 to serve media files”
• Ben Cooper’s “S3 Demo Using Django”
• Patrick Beeson’s “Using Amazon S3 with Django”
• Siddhi’s Screencast: Using Amazon S3 with Django

Next step on the learning curve is to think about using the Amazon Simple Storage Service code for django and trying to integrate it into an application. I’ll need that for the end user of the website I’m going to be developing.