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Amazon S3, I want it to have a WebDav interface instead of the proprietary stuff they have. That way I can use different tools to save file to S3 directly - less hassle.

To make a bit of money you can take a percentage of the bandwidth charges, sell your EC2 appliance, or offer both options.

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You should look at SMEStorage.com. They expose Amazon S3 in a variety of ways and have lots of different tools, including Linux and Mac Virtual Drives.

Have you tried http://www.jungledisk.com/ ? It maps S3 to appear as a drive or directory on your computer, so you can use S3 from any program or tool that can read and write files.

Or is there something specific about WebDav that you needed?

1. I don't want to install a tool on each computer. I want to set it up once and then use it from all of my {servers, macbook, virtual machines}.

2. I want the links resulting from upload to be directly and (sometimes) publicly downloadable without going through jungledisk. E.g. I use screenshot app called Skitch which saves screenshots to WebDav among other things. I want to be able to save screenshot and share it immediately.

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