Comments on: Host your Silverlight apps on Amazon S3

By: Enrique

Enrique — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:31:03 +0000

Thanks for that, I’ll spend some time reading the rest of your posts (all well written). Now that Azure pricing is out maybe you can do a follow-up article

By: Tim Greenfield

Tim Greenfield — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:49:25 +0000

Enrique, you can host a WCF service or database with Amazon EC2 but not with Amazon S3. S3 is just a cheap file storage option. EC2 will run you almost $100 / month minimum unfortunately. Here’s a blog post I wrote earlier about EC2 vs Mosso vs Azure. http://programmerpayback.com/2009/02/04/scalable-windows-hosting-mosso-vs-ec2-vs-azure/

By: Enrique

Enrique — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:42:04 +0000

Great idea. Can Amazon also host a WCF service, and some kind of database (something that .net can connect to) ?

By: Ryan Rivest

Ryan Rivest — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:04:08 +0000

Thanks for this post Tim.. great ideas, and takes some of the mystique out of Amazon S3. For some reason I thought it would be more of a pain to use.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:57:34 +0000

Thanks for the post (pics do help) and the idea to store the .xaps and other binary files (images/audio) on S3 is really a good one. Then I just need the Web Services on my cheap hosting site and everyone is happy. For a small/medium-sized Silverlight app this is ideal.

Now I just need to see what hosting the Web Service and data in the cloud would cost (and see if I trust it yet).

Thanks again. Bruce

By: S3 Browser Team

S3 Browser Team — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:12:22 +0000

Wow, great article.

If you will need to handle big amount of files you can give a try to S3 Browser – http://s3browser.com – Amazon S3 Client for Windows.

It was designed to handle millions of files effectively.

By: Rene Schulte

Rene Schulte — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:44:53 +0000

You can get S3 hosting easier and for free by using DropBox. Read my blog post about that: http://kodierer.blogspot.com/2009/10/live-silverlight-streaming-being.html

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:20:07 +0000

I always enjoy learning what other people think about Amazon Web Services and how they use them. Check out my very own tool CloudBerry Explorer that helps to
manage S3 on Windows . It is a freeware. http://cloudberrylab.com/