While not a personal experience, I think that the NY Times effort to
convert 4TB of TIFFS to 11 million PDFs using Hadoop + EC2 + S3 might
be of interest:
 http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2008/02/hadoop-ec2-s3-super-alternatives-for.html

Glen

> Hi Folks,
> Anybody doing mass storage for their library/consortium on amazon s3?
> 
> Anybody rejected it as an idea?
> 
> Willing to share?  Please do.
> 
> Tim
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Tim Shearer
> 
> Web Development Coordinator
> The University Library
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> [log in to unmask]
> 919-962-1288
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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