We’ve launched new web-based usage reporting for Cloud Files and Managed Amazon S3 accounts. These reports will let you see your current storage usage (updated daily) as well as upload and download bandwidth and request counts for Amazon S3 online disks. We’ve also consolidated the previous Jungle Disk Plus and Workgroup usage reports into a single reporting interface.
A few things to keep in mind with the reports:
- Get and Put requests are not tracked for Cloud Files disks and will show up as zero
- For Desktop users with personal Amazon S3 accounts, neither the bandwidth nor disk usage reporting will be accurate since your requests go directly to Amazon S3. You can always see your Personal S3 account usage on the Amazon site.
- Jungle Disk Plus upload and download bandwidth is included in the daily usage bandwidth totals, but is also broken out separately on the Jungle Disk Plus bandwidth report.
- Total files and bytes are updated once daily, so the current day’s totals may match what you currently have stored. To get an up to the second count, you can run a Consistency Check from the Help menu in Jungle Disk Monitor.
I also wanted to give a brief update on the status of Cloud Files support. After the 2.60c release, access was restored to all existing Cloud Files users, and existing Cloud Files users can now create new Cloud Files online disks as well. We have temporarily disabled new users from creating Cloud Files online disks while we work with the Cloud Files team to make sure that similar issues in the future don’t cause widespread downtime. We’re in the process of implementing those changes now and once complete will re-open Cloud Files support to new users. We expect this work to be completed within the next few days.
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GME said,
March 30, 2009 @ 9:36 am
When will I be able to set up a new cloud files container? Still getting an error that it’s been disabled.
Jungle Dave said,
March 30, 2009 @ 5:15 pm
It has taken longer than initially expected for the required changes, but we are hoping they will be complete by the end of this week.
James Rhodes said,
April 1, 2009 @ 9:28 am
Amazon S3 is offering a Data In special of .03 per GB April through June – will Jungledisk be matching that price during their special?
Jungle Dave said,
April 1, 2009 @ 2:30 pm
Anyone with a personal Amazon S3 account will be get that price automatically.
Jungle Dave said,
April 1, 2009 @ 2:42 pm
Actually, I should expand on that.
Any data transfer direct to S3 to a personal account will be billed at the lower rate. Data transfer to a manged S3 account or via the Jungle Disk Plus servers will still be billed by us at $0.10. Why? Because Amazon has only lowered the price for direct transit to S3, not incoming transit to EC2 which is what the Jungle Disk Plus servers use.
GME said,
April 2, 2009 @ 4:10 pm
It’s Thursday afternoon.
What’s the ETA for cloud files support to be turned on?
Mike said,
April 2, 2009 @ 10:49 pm
Second that… any ETA on cloud files?
Paul said,
April 2, 2009 @ 11:53 pm
Our enterprise is doing a proof of concept for end user storage and we want to also do it on CloudFiles. I will also like to know the ETA on whether to wait or leave out CloudFiles !
Eric said,
April 3, 2009 @ 2:28 pm
Sorry I am a newbie, but went through all the pages of the User Guide for Jungle Disk Desktop Edition and I have found no information about what are the Cloud Files storage on Amazon S3… and also what is a Managed S3 account compared to a personal account?
Is all these basic differences that everybody here seem to understand somewhere explained on your Jungle Disk web site?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Eric
Mike said,
April 3, 2009 @ 4:36 pm
@Eric,
If you sign up with Amazon S3, you can provide that information to JungleDisk and have the client interact directly with your own containers on S3 (personal account, as you referred to). Alternatively, you can setup S3 storage containers through JungleDisk (managed account, as you referred to).
The other option, which still seems to be closed out to new users, is not storing on S3, but rather using Rackspace’s CloudFiles to store your data.
Mike
Greg M. Smith said,
April 3, 2009 @ 4:47 pm
Also looking for an ETA on CloudFiles…this is getting pretty frustrating.
Matt said,
April 4, 2009 @ 9:06 am
When will Rackspace be available? I purchased the JungleDisk software about a week ago specifically thinking I would be able to use Rackspace. I feel like I was seriously mislead by the main website that clearly says:
Jungle Disk Desktop Edition lets you store files and automatically backup all of your data easily and securely to Rackspace Cloud Files and Amazon S3.
Jungle Dave said,
April 4, 2009 @ 4:46 pm
We’ve posted an update on Cloud Files status in our most recent blog update. It has taken longer than we would have liked but we expect the situation to be resolved soon.
Pat said,
April 7, 2009 @ 11:50 am
My online disks are configured with my personal S3 account, so I though I wouldn’t see any numbers, but I see bandwidth numbers when I go here: https://www.jungledisk.com/secure/account/usagereport2.aspx
I thought I would not see anything on JungleDisk usage reporting because of that sentence in your post: “For Desktop users with personal Amazon S3 accounts, neither the bandwidth nor disk usage reporting will be accurate since your requests go directly to Amazon S3.”
Thank you.