Amazon S3: 16 Sites and Resources

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Nirvanix, a competitor to Amazon's S3 storage service, launches today. But S3 itself is already a huge hit with developers: we've put together a collection of sites that use S3 for their hosting and storage needs, plus some tools to help you manage S3. Feel free to add more suggestions in the comments.

Sites That Utilize S3

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AdaptiveBlue.com - A service for Firefox that allows you to save items you find around the web.

Autopendium.com - Add your old car to the system and keep updates and show it off as you restore it.

BigContacts.com - Online contact management you can access from the web or your mobile phone. Integrates with Skype, S3 and Alexa Thumbnail services.

ElasticLive.com - Use their services built on S3 to run web-based applications, MP3 servers, game servers and more.

Mashery.com - Helps you manage your API, provides reports and helps you build a community.

Pageflakes.com - Let's you build a custom start page and provides pre-built modules for services such as Amazon.

Restate.ae - Dubai real estate for sale site.

RoboCal - Get your Google or 30Boxes calendar to talk to you via phone so as not to use up your data plan.

Spicy Pipes - Assists you manufacturing your own mashups with numerous APIs.

Trivop.com - A video guide for hotels that uses S3 for video storage.

Ultima 7 Map - An explorable map of the world of Ultima 7 hosted on S3 servers.

Webjam - An AJAX powered drag-and-drop website creating service utilizing S3.

WipBox - Aids in research of Ebay and Craigslist, then uses S3 to store photos to aid in your listings on both sites.

Tools For Managing S3

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jsh3ll - Built on the Amazon S3 REST Java library, it's a command shell for managing your S3 objects.

S3 Firefox Organizer - A Firefox tool to help you manage your S3 space.

Sh311 - An Amazon S3 command shell for C#.