Tim.Churches wrote: > Amazon S3 is not strictly open source software but may be of interest to > open source software developers and end-users. ... > So what could S3 be used for? ... > 2) As a store-and-forward facility for the exchange of lab results or > other health messages (in encrypted form, of course). By using strong > encryption for the data being stored-and-forwarded, the fact that the > "secret" access key for an S3 account would need to be shared between > multiple parties is not an impediment. Billing for the usage of S3 for > such shared data interchange might be an issue, but I think that the S3 > billing records are in machine-readable format, so some additional > mechanism for apportioning costs could be built - if the costs warranted > that.
Actually, Amazon offer another, free service directed at that: the Amazon Simple Queue Service - see the left-hand panel at http://aws.amazon.com - however, the Queue Service can only handle messages up to 4kb, which means it is not much use. Amazon S3, by contrast, can handle individual files up to 5GB, and as many of them as you want, which means it could be used for heavy-duty store-and-forward delivery of messages containing large payloads such as high-quality digitised radiographs and MRI scans and echocardiography or endoscopy movies and so on. Tim C Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
