We've
just released a private beta for Amazon S3 users. The idea is that if you use
Amazon's Simple Storage Service (that's where the S3 comes from) you get
information about what you're using, why and how much it costs you.
However,
all the S3 information comes in as a log, but what if you'd like to show your
boss a dashboard that looks more like Google Analytics?. (you can't use Google
Analytics here - since you can't insert an html tag into the S3 parts of your
site). That information is worth quite
some $$ if you can use it to optimize the way you work with Amazon S3. For
instance, you can compress a file, or find out that a lot of files are
addressed from a lesser wanted source, and change something about the way your
website works.
The
SiSense team has given this some serious thought for the following reasons.
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First of all, we're Amazon S3 users ourselves.
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Second, as a bunch of guys developing business
intelligence software, we've become obsessed with analyzing stuff
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Third - our goal is to connect as many data
sources as possible to our software.
A
note on the data sources: we try to connect to any valuable store of data:
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Excel 2003
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OLAP sources
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Oracle
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SQL
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SQL analysis services
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MySQL
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We're about to add csv files, excel 2007 and
other goodies I can't tell you about yet...
So
we configured a custom S3 dashboard, using our software (which allows you to
create any dashboard). This saves the Amazon S3 user all the work. You just download
our software with the pre-configured S3 dashboard, connect it to Amazon S3 -
and, voila - it works. It shows you anything you'd like to know about your S3
use, and has already, for our data, generated some real efficiencies. Just don't take too long a time period the
first time around because the data transfer might be slow.
And
we're offering this, free of charge, as a private beta accessible here.
If you'd like to join the private beta email us here
Update: Jason Kincaid just covered our Amazon S3 Dashboard release in TechcrunchIT.
