The Data Bucket Pro BLOG

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In 2006 SmugMug.com used Amazon S3 Web Service to save $48,490 / month... ($500K) on their business costs.

...and  they expect their savings from Amazon S3 to be well over $1M in 2007, maybe as high as $2M.

So who are SmugMug.com ?

Well, they are a rapidly growing business who provide a "storage service" for customers to store their photos securely, both home users and pro's.

Here are a couple of great quotes from the CEO's blog:

"Amazon has been so reliable over the last 7 months (considerably more reliable than our own internal storage, which I consider to be quite reliable), that just last week we made S3 an even more fundamental part of our storage architecture."

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The Amazon S3 Service Level Agreement came into being on October 1st 2007.

Just like any other company that provides network storage, Amazon Web Services has now provided a Service Level Agreement for its paying customers.

Amazon Web Services will use commercially reasonable efforts to make Amazon S3 available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage (defined below) of at least 99.9% during any monthly billing cycle.

In the event Amazon S3 does not meet the Service Commitment to its customers they will be eligible to receive a Service Credit.

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In March 2006 Amazon launched its Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service - that’s where the 3 comes from) online storage web service, offered by its Amazon Web Services section.

Amazon S3 provides unlimited storage through a simple web services interface. Data can be easily stored and retrieved at any time, from anywhere on the web.

Amazon charges in proportion to the amount of data stored and applies charges for sending and receiving data. So this can, in many cases, be a much better investment that traditional webs hosting.

Amazon S3 clients even include Microsoft!

…and soon YOU CAN TOO using Data Bucket PRO - a simple way to use Amazon S3 for the non technical.