Amazon S3 in SmugMug blog
A recent entry on the SmugMug blog, Amazon S3: Show me the money, (via Steve Eichert) highlights the advantages of outsourcing IT infrastructure needs to Amazon’s S3 services.
In short, using Amazon’s webservices is saving SmugMug $500,000 a year.
Businessweek covered Amazon’s web service strategy recently in Amazon’s Risky Bet.
According to Businessweek, Wall Street wants Amazon to just continue selling stuff and stop spending money on crazy IT ideas. SmugMug probably disagrees.
December 19th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Definitely an interesting story about how companies can leverage some of the “infrastructure” services that Amazon is offering. Combining S3 with EC2 could lead to some very interesting opportunities for startups who don’t want to build out such an infrastructure themselves (who would?).
By the way, I like the Snap preview of links!
Cheers,
Steve