I recently needed to share some open source files via BitTorrent and wanted to host them on my Amazon S3 account. For those of you familiar with S3, here is the short-answer: add ?torrent to the end of the URL of a public-shared file to get the *.torrent file, so the link would be http://s3.amazonaws.com/your_bucket_name/your_file_name?torrent [...]
How to Create and Seed a Torrent Download on Amazon S3
Mnesvc Inc Seattle is Amazon Web Services
I noticed a weird charge on my credit card from “Mnesvc Inc Seattle” on 9/1. I initially thought it was a fradulent charge, but it was for less than $2, so I was a little confused. After a little more research, I found that Mnesvc is really Amazon.com and this is how they are now [...]
