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by rogerthat 6103 days ago
Can you upload files to SimpleDB and use it as a free alternative to Amazon S3? I imagine not but I'm curious anyway.
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The only way to achieve this would be to shard the file across multiple entries. The limit per is 1k, so I doubt it would fit your needs. There is also a hard limit of 1gb per domain, which is not difficult to run up against if you treat it as a more generic data store.
It figures - I wouldn't expect them to canabalize S3. Thanks for the details though.