Jungle Disk is a cool little app that allows you to mount your Amazon S3 file store as a desktop drive.

From their site:

Jungle Disk is an multi-platform application that lets users easily store and backup their data online via Amazon.com’s S3 storage service. S3 has a usage based pricing model that pretty much blows away all of the other online storage sites.

One interesting thing they are doing is you sign up for your own S3 account to store the data. They aren’t taking a cut of the action at all (you get the benefit of Amazon’s dirt cheap pricing) and because it’s your own account, your data is kept private.

The application works with Mac OSX, Windows and Linux. The beta is free and from the forums, they are looking to keep basic functionality free and avoid a subscription fee for the application.

Looks like a great way to take advantage of Amazon S3 to backup your files.

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