Wednesday, May 30, 2007

PowerShell and Amazon S3

We just implemented the Xcellery backup using the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and PowerShell script!

Amazon S3 is a storage for the internet. It provides a web service interface that we can use to store any files in a safe and secure place. PowerShell is command line shell and scripting language from Microsoft. One of the key features for PowerShell is it is object-based and can access .NET objects. Since Amazon S3 uses a web service interface, with a little work, it can become a set of PowerSell Commandlets. By combining both, we can write a elegant script that backup our files and upload to S3 automatically.

PowerShell and Amazon S3 rock!

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nice article, great concept!

4:23 AM  

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