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/

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 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

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