Data Bucket Pro for Amazon S3 Windows Users

Amazon S3 is a web service that you have probably NEVER heard of.

Yet it is used by Microsoft, XEROX and many other big names… But not only companies of this size. Amazon S3 is also used by smaller companies and even home users!

So what is Amazon S3?

Simply put, Amazon are giving you access to the same network that stores their own websites and other services. This comprises of many data centers all packed with high speed servers with multiple fast connections to the Internet. And all of this is available on a pay as you go basis!

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Why should I use Amazon S3?

If you have any important data, such as backups then you should use Amazon S3

If you have a website and serve large files, such as video, you should use Amazon S3

If you want to share files over the Internet, you should use Amazon S3

If you want to create download links that EXPIRE when you want them to, you should use Amazon S3

…look at the uses of Amazon S3:

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How can I use Amazon S3?

To use the service you need an account with Amazon Web Services and some software on your PC. I recommend “Data Bucket Pro”.

Find out more about Amazon S3 and Data Bucket Pro TODAY!

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Regards

Marc Liron
Microsoft MVP
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SmugMug.com Use Amazon S3 To Save $500K

Yet another company that is using the Amazon S3 Web Service to save money in its business… this is something that ANY small business can be doing by using Data Bucket Pro to work with Amazon S3

clipped from databucketpro.bloghi.com 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.”

The Amazon S3 Service Level Agreement

Well that’s GOOD NEWS for customers!

clipped from www.databucketpro.com The Amazon S3 Service Level Agreement came into being on October 1st 2007. 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.