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I have just published a small project on CodePlex called CDN Sync . The primary goal of this project is to provide a set of tools to synchronize local files and folders with Cloud Storage Providers during the Build and Deployment process. Using a CDN (Content Delivery Network) for all your static website files should be the default these days if you’re concerned providing the optimal client experience, however deploying these files to your CDN Provider can be a manual process and prone to versioning issues. Version 1.0 includes an MSBuild task and support for synchronizing with Amazon S3 . Pre-Requisites: Visual Studio 2010 Amazon Web Services Account You can download the Release from here and read the documentation Future features: Support for Cloud Files Support for Windows Azure Command Line Interface Any questions or issues then please post them to the CodePlex project or comment here.

Well the wait is over Microsoft have finally announced the Pricing for Windows Azure , thanks Darko for letting me know. Full post here . All in all there are no surprises and the pricing is pretty much on a par with other Cloud Computing providers. Let’s do a quick pricing comparison.   Windows Azure Amazon EC2 GoGrid RackspaceCloud Cloud Sites From $100 / month Compute Cycles $0.12 $0.125 $0.19 inc 10,000 / month $0.01 Inbound Bandwidth $0.10 $0.10 FREE inc 500 GB / month $0.25 / GB Outbound Bandwidth $0.10 $0.17 $0.50 inc 500 GB / month $0.25 / GB Storage / GB $0.15 $0.10 $0.15 inc 50 GB / month $0.50 / GB CDN N/A $0.17 / GB N/A ...

I know it's been a long time between drinks. But I've finally found the time to post about my latest discoveries from the land of the Bleeding Edge. I'm currently rebuilding my PC with Windows 7 Release Candidate, more on that later and have some free time. So as you would know if you have read the rest of my blog I have settled for a hosting solution of this. Go Grid – App & DB Servers EC2 - Transcoding, File Processing Services S3 - Media Storage CloudFront – CDN As we near the release date for our product we have been doing substantial testing in the area of uploading from the Client directly to S3 using Flash and then performing Transcoding in EC2. Anyone who's tried to play with the S3 API knows that it is a beast to say the least, so I choose to use the very good wrapper from Affirma called ThreeSharp . If you're doing development in .NET with S3 then you would be mad not to use it. However I have come acro...