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Re: Google Storage Now Available To Developers

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Post by haploid » Wed, May 11, 2011, 6:50 PM UTC

So it's a less redundant, less mature, less documented, more expensive, 5 year late, and invite-only version of S3 that doesn't have one-click CDN enabling?

And it's built by a company perpetually embroiled in privacy and data retention scandals?

Sign me the fuck up.

Re: Google Storage Now Available To Developers

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 11, 2011, 6:51 PM UTC

zbailey wrote: post #10

A compelling reason for our use case to switch from S3 is their support for lots of buckets coupled with CNAME support: http://code.google.com/apis/storage/docs/reference-uris.html Due to Amazon's limitation of 100 buckets per account and the coupling between bucket name and CNAME, hosting files for our clients and supporting custom CNAMEs has not been possible for us. If we were to move to Google Storage, it would b…

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Re: Google Storage Now Available To Developers

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Post by MatthewB » Wed, May 11, 2011, 6:52 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #16

MatthewB wrote: post #14

I am a little confused about Google Storage Manager. Is this supposed to be a consumer facing product? AKA dropbox killer?

No, it's an Amazon S3 competitor.

Then what is the point of the frontend app?

Re: Google Storage Now Available To Developers

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Post by spullara » Wed, May 11, 2011, 6:55 PM UTC

jbyers wrote: post #9

It's really nice to see that boto (python AWS library) supports S3 and Google Storage side-by-side. Being able to pick and choose providers behind the same API is how the cloud should be.

It probably wouldn't have worked out that way if Google didnt clone S3's API.

Re: Google Storage Now Available To Developers

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Post by michaelbuckbee » Wed, May 11, 2011, 6:59 PM UTC

MatthewB wrote: post #23

ceejayoz wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's an Amazon S3 competitor.

Then what is the point of the frontend app?

S3 has a web based access application as well. It is nice if you need to just manipulate a few files, check that a backup actually did make it to S3, etc.

Dropbox isn't really a storage company (they're built on top of S3) their secret sauce is in the syncing.

Re: Google Storage Now Available To Developers

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Post by michaelbuckbee » Wed, May 11, 2011, 7:02 PM UTC

reedlaw wrote: post #20

Anyone know how to copy an S3 bucket to Google Storage?

The quickest/cheapest thing would probably be to startup an ec2 instance, install the GSUtils [1] and then pull from S3 and push to GS.

1 - http://code.google.com/apis/storage/docs/gsutil.html#install

Re: Google Storage Now Available To Developers

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Post by weavejester » Wed, May 11, 2011, 7:08 PM UTC

spullara wrote: post #24

jbyers wrote: post #9

It's really nice to see that boto (python AWS library) supports S3 and Google Storage side-by-side. Being able to pick and choose providers behind the same API is how the cloud should be.

It probably wouldn't have worked out that way if Google didnt clone S3's API.

To be fair to Google, most of the S3 REST API is pretty obvious. Even if you'd never seen S3, you'd likely come up with an API that was 80% similar.

Re: Google Storage Now Available To Developers

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Post by jggube » Wed, May 11, 2011, 7:10 PM UTC

jcampbell1 wrote: post #7

5 years, 1 month and 28 days after S3 is publicly launched. It is just a reminder that the threat by incumbents to startups is hardly worth worrying about.

Amazon was hardly a startup 5 years ago. And we're talking about a service and a space that's difficult to replicate and get into. S3 had resources most startups won't have to get that 5-year lead.

Re: Google Storage Now Available To Developers

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Post by joeyh » Wed, May 11, 2011, 7:21 PM UTC

spullara wrote: post #24

jbyers wrote: post #9

It's really nice to see that boto (python AWS library) supports S3 and Google Storage side-by-side. Being able to pick and choose providers behind the same API is how the cloud should be.

It probably wouldn't have worked out that way if Google didnt clone S3's API.

Cloned but with some required new fields like "x-goog-api-version", so existing S3 libraries won't quite work without modification, it seems.

Re: Google Storage Now Available To Developers

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Post by joeyh » Wed, May 11, 2011, 7:35 PM UTC

zbailey wrote: post #10

A compelling reason for our use case to switch from S3 is their support for lots of buckets coupled with CNAME support: http://code.google.com/apis/storage/docs/reference-uris.html Due to Amazon's limitation of 100 buckets per account and the coupling between bucket name and CNAME, hosting files for our clients and supporting custom CNAMEs has not been possible for us. If we were to move to Google Storage, it would b…

Another good reason for certain use cases is its support for resumable uploads:

http://code.google.com/apis/storage/docs/developer-guide.htm...

Afaik S3 can't do that.