SmugMug.com Use Amazon S3 To Save $500K
Yep that’s right!
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.”
“Perhaps most important, though, is the difficult-to-quantify time, effort, and mental thought we’re saving. We get to spend both that money and all of our extra time and effort on providing a better customer experience and delivering better customer service. Storage was a necessary evil that’s now been nearly removed as a concern.”
BUT can the little guy, the small business owner and Internet Marketer benefit from Amazon S3 Web Services too?
Sure they can… I am already benefiting from the service in my online/offline business.
That’s how Data Bucket Pro came about, out of a personal need for some reliable software I could use to work with the Amazon S3 Web Service!
And now YOU can use the software too.
Visit: http://www.databucketpro.com to find out more.
Regards
Marc Liron - Microsoft MVP
http://www.marctalkstech.com
Source: http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2006/11/10/amazon-s3-show-me-the-money/
Tags: Amazon, Amazon S3, SmugMug.com
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