Amazon Simple Storage Service - Gaining Momentum

By: Ahmar Abbas

What do Microsoft and SmugMug have in common? Both rely on the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for cheap and reliable web-scale storage. With Amazon S3, growing companies now have the resources to look and feel like a Fortune 500 enterprise.

Today, Amazon announced a variety of customers that together are storing more than 800 million data objects using Amazon S3. On one end of the spectrum there is Microsoft, which is utilizing S3 to dramatically reduce its storage costs without compromising scale or reliability. On the other end are small businesses such as SmugMug that are depending on the S3 benefits of scale and cost-efficiently previously only available to large companies.

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