[Registry-dev] write a backend that stores actual resources on S3

[Deepal Jayasinghe]

> I was reading a bit about Amazon EC2 and S3 and it seems to me we
> should write a registry back-end variant that stores the actual
> resources on S3. I'd still keep the metadata and the various cross
> refs in our usual tables and then have that data backed up into S3
> periodically.
One of the intern (Shiwantha) implement most of the stuff in S3 service
, what he did was generate the skel using S3 service WSDL and fill that.
I know it is not complete but we may be able to improve that and use.
>
> Another option is to simply use MySQL and the S3 storage engine:
>     http://fallenpegasus.com/code/mysql-awss3/
>
> This could be an interesting way to think about scalability. If we can
> formulate a reasonable experiment I can try to co-opt one of our new
> Java focused interns and get him/her cracking on this.
>
> Sanjiva.