"If they ever built a node in Australia, at the very least we'd pick up the phone to Amazon and say 'can we work together'," he said. "For the moment though, the scaling problem isn't biting us very hard."

The provider has planned for additional functionality drops "around the corner", including moving the platform from a Flash-based interface to HTML5. Plans are also afoot to dump Google's now-defunct Gears plugin in favour of a solution that is more compatible with MacOS X and Linux for file uploads over two gigabytes.

The source code base has continued to be developed by researchers at AARNet and counterparts at over 15 countries, with each individual network appropriating the code for its own Cloud-based storage solution. Aben said Spain and Portugal had begun exploring the idea of a multi-tenanted system shared between universities in the two countries.

According to Aben, a service like CloudStor would likely be some time away from a wider commercial release, due to .