Updated the Amazon S3 library. s3tool now compiles (oops...seriously don't know how I missed that), and there's a couple tweaks, plus a new feature for generating index.html files for buckets.

I've put up the first version of my Amazon S3 library, referenced in the previous post. It should be considered early alpha at this point, but is fairly complete.

This is a simple C++ library and command line tool for working with Amazon S3. Amazon S3 is a web storage service by Amazon. Essentially, you get buckets you can store objects (files) in, each object is referred to using a key (which can be used as though it were a file name or a path), and objects can be accessed directly through the S3 service or via the web. With some fancy DNS CNAME tricks, you can have files hosted on S3 which appear to be hosted on your own server.

Like this:
http://media.arklyffe.com/emaganim.mp4

Amazon S3 is a web storage service by Amazon. Essentially, you get buckets you can store objects (files) in, and others can access those objects directly through the S3 service or via the web. This is particularly useful for hosting images and video...the storage and bandwidth go to their server farms, easing the load on your own server. Space and bandwidth are rather cheap ($0.15/GB for storage and $0.10/GB for bandwidth as of this writing), and you pay only for what you use.