Sissle

Sissle is a file transfer program for storing and retrieving files to and from the Amazon S3 system. Files stored on Amazon S3 can be for backup, extra storage as for example photographs and movies or even as a simple web site as for example part of this site. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) provides a cheap reliable storage for high volume files and Sissle transfers files to and from Amazon S3.

Sissle provides numerous functions such as creation and deletion of buckets ,folders and files, file encryption, file compression, synchronization of files, filter operations eg *.doc, batch operations, copy / move files internally within Amazon S3, setting ACLs and changing them latter,

Amazon S3 provides a top level container called a bucket and stores files (Amazon calls them keys) inside these buckets.sThe Amazon S3 Simple Storage System is a low cost reliable file storage system. The storage cost is $0.15 per GB per month, all values are in US dollars, there are bandwidth costs of $0.10 in and $0. 17 out per GB. Complete details can be found at http://aws.amazon.com/s3. As an example the yearly cost for storing 1GB is 12 * $0.15 = $1.80 + initially loading of $0.10 = $1.90. The download costs are more difficult to calculate and depends on use but if we say this is 'n' times the complete 1GB per year this is $0.17n. There are some auxiliary charges but as these involve per 1000 and per 10000 accesses for $0.01 I will ignore them here. There is no minimum fee, as an example my monthly payments have varied between 0.05 to 0.25 $.

The program, shown below, contains 2 explorer type windows showing local and remote folders and files, adorned with buttons to transfer data to and from the Amazon S3 system and a synchronize button (Larger Screen shot). When an operation has been selected a third transfer window opens showing all the operations to be performed. The transfer window allows a further level of selection / deselection of operations and then tracks the progress of all operations.

Sissle Version  1.4.0