Amazon S3 Part 2

OK, so I got a few complaints (you know who you are) about part 1 of my Amazon S3 post being too long and boring. So....I'll keep part 2 short and sweet. Basically, I wrote a backup / restore script for my linux files using PHP and REST (instead of SOAP). The bottom line is that I love the Amazon REST interface. It's simple and easy to use, forget SOAP, use REST.

The only other issue w/ S3 that I've noticed is that it will fail 1 out of every 2000 or so requests. Based on the forums, you simply have to code around this issue. It's easy to do, but I'm not sure why it fails so frequently. But I've never seen it fail twice in a row, so simply re-trying the request after a failure seems to always work.