Re: Amazon VOStore?

From: Roy Williams <roy-at-cacr.caltech.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:28:42 -0700


Dave & VOSpacers:

Perhaps I can ask my questions more specifically.

(1) Why not take the Amazon definition and just use that exactly? (2) What can Amazon do that VOSpace cannot (and why is that feature there?)
(3) What can VOSpace do that Amazon cannot (and which use-case needs that?)
(4) How does the metadata model differ between Amazon and VOSpace? (5) What are the differences in security model? If the VO model is different, why is it different?
(6) What does VOSpace do that Amazon cannot (and who is demanding that extra feature?)
(7) Is there a problem in implementing Amazon on top of SRB?

Roy

On Aug 17, 2006, at 6:07 AM, Dave Morris wrote:

> Alasdair Allan wrote:
>
>> Roy Williams wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder what is common and what is different between Amazon S3
>>> and VOSpace?
>>
>> I think VOStore and Amazon S3 are very similar, VOSpace is
>> something that could sit on top of both (wasn't there some
>> mumbling about using S3 as one of the backends for VOStore?)
>
> Yes.
> Once we get the initial inter-op services running, one of the
> things I'd like to experiment with is a VOSpace service (facade)
> that stores its data in an Amazon S3 account.
>
> Dave
>

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