They decided to make all their public domain articles from 1851-1922 available free of charge.

These articles are all in the form of images scanned from original editions of the paper.

To do this they had to upload the scanned images of the 11 million articles up to Amazon S3. That was about 4 TB (Terabytes)

Then they used Amazon’s E2 “rent some seriously powerful servers” service to create PDF files of the 11 million articles using a combination of specially written software.

If you are familiar with Amazon’s E2 service you might like to know it took 24 hours using 100 Es instances to create the 11 million PDF’s.

When finished, the 11 million articles generated 1.5TB of data to store in Amazon S3.

And that’s were it now sit’s waiting to be searched by anybody via the main NYT website at http://www.nytimes.com

Just look for the Search Box and select:  NYT Archive 1851 - 1980 from the drop down list!

…yet another great example of using the power of Amazon S3 in business!

Have you got your software to start using Amazon S3 yet?

Visit: http://www.databucketpro.com

Regards

Marc Liron - Microsoft MVP

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.

The team behind the announcement had this to say:

“This SLA has been in the works for a while and we take the commitments made in this document quite seriously. We knew that S3 had to meet the very high performance and reliability goals set by our internal clients. We strongly believed that meeting this level of operational excellence would be good enough for our external users as well. Before we published our SLA, we wanted to get a better sense of how our external developers were making use of S3. With well over 5 billion objects under management, we now understand the usage patterns and properties needed to make an informed commitment.”

They then go on to say:

“We’re committed to providing a highly available service which meets the needs of current and future customers. This new SLA is our way of formalizing that commitment, letting you know what the minimum expected level of performance will be.”

Well that’s GOOD NEWS for customers!

Have you got your software to start using Amazon S3 yet?
Visit: http://www.databucketpro.com

Regards

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

Furthermore, Smartsheet’s customer base, required a high level of security and reliability for content storage. After examining several solutions for document attachments, including Rackspace, Smartsheet.com turned to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) from Amazon Web Services.

“Amazon is a trusted brand on the web   and thanks to Amazon Web Services, our users have a very high level of comfort with storing their business and personal information through Smartsheet.com.” said Mark Mader, President, Smartsheet.com.

Smartsheet.com is pleased with the savings too. “We save in excess of 90% on storage costs and more than 80% on data transfer costs.  Because our cost to operate is improved, our addressable market has broadened to include individuals and micro businesses,” said Mader. “In addition to the storage cost savings, we were able to avoid renting unused server capacity at our current hosting provider.” 

Want to benefit too?

Visit: http://www.databucketpro.com

Regards

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

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/

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/

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

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 web hosting.

Amazon S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its own global e-commerce network.

So even a small business can have the same file hosting and backup service as the major players!

Amazon S3 is currently being used by small start-ups and enterprise clients as a web hosting service, image hosting service, back-up system, and more.

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 user.

The main attractiveness of Amazon S3 is its design which provides scalability, high availability, and a low latency at very low costs.

Regards

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

.