I’ve not noticed any huge delays from S3, although it is admittedly slower than storing everything local. I have heard of problems posting large files, like video. I’ve not done this, personally.

Pulling stuff down can be as simple as just HTTP calls if you are not using ACL.

-g

I have been reading your Amazon S3 posts which I find very informative. I have developed a web application for media professionals to work with video , audio, images and docs. The app is PHP / MySQL. The site is a business site and will not have more than 5000 users if that. I have been looking into S3 as a storage solution and to build an api to my app.

I am interested in your thoughts on this in terms of will it seamlessly work with my app and not lead to problems, like delays in pulling the media
into my app.

Thanks,

Andy