The CloudBerry Labs site contains a walk through on how to setup an Amazon Web Services account – check it out. If you already have an Amazon account (and don’t we all), you can add S3 service to your existing login. Whenever you PUT new files, or GET old files out of the service, you are charged for the transaction after the monthly allowance. If I have less than 1000 changes to said files each month, my on-going recurring monthly cost should be around $3. This is due to the high volume of my first time PUTs to send my files into the cloud. This fee is based on the amount of storage used and PUT and GET transactions processed per month (PUTs and GETs are nothing more than uploading and downloading files to and from the service).įor example, my first monthly fee using the Amazon S3 service for roughly 26GB of storage amounted to less than $13.00. When you setup your cloud-based storage provider, keep in mind that you will have a recurring monthly fee. However, the only service you need to be concerned with is the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Many services are offered and it can be somewhat intimidating when you first arrive at the AWS site. I personally have chosen to use the Amazon S3 service, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. I encourage you to explore the various options and features available in the add-in and the cloud service as my implementation may not fit exactly what you need.īefore you start installing the CloudBerry Backup add-in for Windows Home Server, you’re going to want to explore the various cloud storage options available to you.the following are my opinions, your experience may vary from mine.Installing the CloudBerry Backup add-in on Windows Home Server.Sign up for a cloud service (Amazon S3).I leveraged both the CloudBerry Labs site as well as my own learnings to provide the following. I recently wrote a review about CloudBerry Backup 2.2 for Windows Home Server v1 and thought it might be helpful to give you a quick guide to get setup and running quickly.