Matthew Mullenweg is the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software that runs thousands of other sites around the world.

You might even be using one in your business?

Well did you know that he uses Amazon S3 Web Services for his company www.wordpress.com

So shouldn’t YOU be taking a look at how YOUR small business should be using it today?
Visit: http://www.databucketpro.com to find out more.

Regards

Marc Liron - Microsoft MVP
http://www.marctalkstech.com
Source: http://photomatt.net/2007/10/09/s3-news/

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/

So Why Use Amazon Web Services?

Over the last 11 years Amazon.com has spent over $2 billion building the infrastructure, technical knowledge, and experience to operate a world class scalable computing platform for the Internet.

Amazon.com calls the services it offers via this platform - Amazon Web Services.

The particular Amazon Web Service that you should be interested in is: Amazon S3

…just think about that for a moment.

As a small business or Internet Marketer (which is actually a small business…) you can have access to one of the worlds largest computer networks for a “pay as you use” model.

The only small problem is that to access Amazon Web Services you need to programmatically access them via their open APIs.

What this means in plain English is that you need to use an application that has been especially written to do this job.

Amazon.com make all the power of their network available to you BUT only a software developer can help your business to leverage their robust infrastructure, easily and inexpensively. 

…and that is where my software Data Bucket Pro can help you!

Written by someone who understands your needs as a small business/Internet Marketer I am making available this software that will allow you to access Amazon S3 in a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective manner.

Visit:  http://www.databucketpro.com

Regards

Marc Liron - Microsoft MVP
http://www.marcliron.com