Bandwagon: Backup iTunes to S3 or FTP

Bandwagon FTP edition (beta) available: "Bandwagon is an app service that automatically and continuously backs up iTunes to your online storage. Furthermore, Bandwagon is event driven, not scheduled backup (i.e. when you add tracks, it will automatically back it up)."

They have two versions of the service: an Amazon S3 edition called Bandwagon DIY (which has been renamed to Bandwagon S3) which, of course, backs up to your S3 storage. Then Bandwagon FTP is geared towards users that have unused web hosting storage or have their own homegrown ftp server.

This is great to see another developer putting a task-based intelligent front end onto S3 / FTP. With the various options for online storage out there getting bigger and cheaper, these kinds of utilities will help to decentralize data storage and keep more people from suffering the horrors of complete data loss.



Please note, while I'm genuinely into the Bandwagon idea, I'm also posting this in the hopes of getting the discount on their service that they are currently offering to bloggers ;)

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos kicks off Web 2.0 Expo

ZDNet Video: "Company's S3 surpasses 5 billion objects stored... At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos talks to conference attendees about the company's on-demand storage service. Bezos announced that today the S3 service stores more than 5 billion objects, compared with 800,000 objects stored in July 2006."

So You Wanna Be a Web Tycoon? Amazon Can Help

Web Worker Daily: "While Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings are currently limited in capability and oriented to only the most technical of developers, what they're doing changes all the economic rules about creating a web startup. You thought that cheap web hosting and free email services disrupted the startup business space and kept venture capitalists up at night? Take a look at the next generation of web apps infrastructure, as imagined by Amazon..."

This is a good article discussing the potential benefits for companies using 'The Utility Computing Model'.

Interview With Jeff Bezos On Amazon Web Services

TalkCrunch: "Moments after Jeff Bezos left the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I was able to talk to him for a few minutes about Amazon’s web services ambitions. Jeff is emphasizing that new services like Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are going to be a key business line for them in the future, and they are planting the seeds now."

I'm really into the possibilities for S3. It's interesting to hear some info straight from Bezos.