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If you ever wondered whether Amazon S3 would be successful, I think we have the answer. Yesterday, Amazon provided an update on S3 growth, stating that S3 now stores 566 billion objects. To make S3 even more appealing, the company announced today that they're adding server-side encryption to S3.

Amazon isn't just hanging on to a lot of data, they're also serving it at a breakneck pace. According to the post by Jeff Barr, Amazon handles up to 370,000 S3 requests per second.

Just in time for the holiday weekend (in the U.S., at least) Amazon has made a few select improvements to its S3 management console. While not Earth-shattering, the features will make using S3 from tablets and behind corporate firewalls a bit easier. Uploading files in bulk just got easier too.

Once upon a time, before the word Internet (or cloud) put dollar signs in VC eyes, sites were built with static tools. All a good Webmaster needed was a text editor and a Web server – maybe a few images and blink tags if they were feeling fancy.

These days, most of the Web is powered by dynamic content management systems like WordPress or Drupal. But what if there was another way, a better way, leveraging cloud services like Amazon S3 or GitHub? Werner Vogels has done just that by using S3 and Jekyll.

We have written before about a little-known facet of AWS, the ability to ship your physical hard drive off to that Big Cloud in Seattle and have them make a copy of all your precious data and put it in their cloud.

Today Amazon Web Services announced the availability of a new feature of their Simple Storage Service (S3).

Object Versioning now joins the ever growing list of features supported by S3. This proves once again that Amazon Web Services are listening to their customers and putting plenty of distance between them and their competition.

Two months ago, Amazon - which has taken to sharing some of its massive computing power with mere mortals as a means of developing additional revenue streams - announced that they were developing a content-delivery network (CDN) to complement their existing Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) offering. Today, they unveiled the beta version of that service, named Amazon CloudFront. Boasting a now-familiar, pay-as-you-go pricing model, Amazon CloudFront promises to make CDN an affordable addition for any site looking to gain more efficient content delivery.

A few days after Amazon released their SimpleDB service, they also added the new DevPay service to their web application infrastructure stack, which makes it easier for developers to charge for apps built on Amazon's family of web services. "You can think of DevPay as an enabling technology for our other services. As as developer you will spend most of your time working with the other AWS services while counting on DevPay to allow you to monetize your hard work," wrote Jeff Barr, Amazon's Web Services Evangelist, on the AWS blog.