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Storing Very Large Files On Amazon's Unlimited Cloud Photo Storage

Posted by timothy on from the computers-don't-feel-cognitive-dissonance dept.

AmiMoJo writes: Last year Amazon started offering unlimited cloud storage for photos to customers who subscribed to its "Prime" service. Japanese user YDKK has developed a tool to store arbitrary data inside a .bmp file, which can then be uploaded to Amazon's service. A 1.44GB test image containing an executable file uploaded at over 250Mb/sec, far faster than typical cloud storage services that are rate limited and don't allow extremely large files.

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  1. This is why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is why we can't have nice things.

    1. Re:This is why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "Unlimited" does have a very specific meaning, and in this case it means unlimited photos, not unlimited steganography.

    2. Re:This is why by hawguy · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Unlimited" does have a very specific meaning, and in this case it means unlimited photos, not unlimited steganography.

      I happen to have a very extensive collection of photographs of static from my TV and I need someplace to store them.

    3. Re: This is why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      They offered storage for photos. Data disguised as a .bmp file is not a photo. That's abuse.

  2. Unlimited files for $60/yr by pz · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you take the trouble to read through Amazon's TOS, and click to their actual rates, you can buy unlimited storage for photos, videos, AND ARBITRARY FILES for only $60 per year. Not only that, but Prime gets you 5 GB of videos and non-photo files for free.

    Going through all the hassle of specially encoding your data files so that they masquerade as photos seems like a heapload of time better spent earning $60 so that you don't have the long-term headaches and potential for being banned from Amazon's service that such abuses flirt with. You want a real backup service? Buy it, it isn't expensive.

    Backblaze, a darling of Slashdot, is only $50 per year. It isn't worth the hassle or time to beat the system for such low prices. Amazon Glacier is $0.007/GB/month. Both systems offer encrypted storage. Why work hard when someone else has done the figuring out for you?

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