Earlier in day I subscribed to Amazon S3 using my HDFC Bank Visa credit card. Though S3 is pay-for-what-you-use kind of service, they still do a verification transaction on your credit card. So they charged 1 Rupee from my card. Probably they would revert this transaction after some time.
But my bank got suspicious about this 1 Rupee transaction from Amazon, US and immediately called me up asking if the transaction was actually made by me. When asked they said they generally go for a confirmation from the card holder on certain suspicious internet transactions.
Safe banking guys! Alas one worthy call among those annoying credit card/personal loan marketing calls.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Amazon S3 Drive
Came across this logical drive for accessing the Amazon S3 storage space. Looks pretty simple.
An S3 bucket could be mapped to a logical drive in your machine providing the access key id and secret access key. And then you would see a new logical drive in your machine which maps to that S3 bucket.
First impression: pretty neat tool
The tool is a free download and availiable at SuchWerk's site.
Started off using Amazon S3 for testing our JAX-WS prototype by accessing Amazon Web Services but ended up at this:-)
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