Amazon S3 is a cloud service many many app developers use to to house their large files. After you make a purchase and click on download Amazon is the source of the files and they are distributed to varoius servers located in various places to balance the load.

Been awhile since I tried it. But 2 years ago my portable drive I carry arround with my runtimes on it to use while in China with my laptop where my job takes me for 2 weeks after being in the states for 3 or 4, rinse and repeat, took a dump. I bought TechTool Pro to repair the drive and becuase I was in China which blocks a lot of urls, I couldn't dl the the files (they where housed on Amazon) and had to wait until I got back home to fix the portable drive. Might be different today however. Dl's from Rendoerosity direct are slower while in China then in the US, but at least they work :)

Gary

"Those who lose themselves in a passion lose less than those who lose their passion"