Comments on: Amazon releases early info on S3 storage use

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By: Yahoo’s BBAuth Will Allow Better Mashups » JenIT

Yahoo’s BBAuth Will Allow Better Mashups » JenIT — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:20:46 +0000

[...] It’s worth noting that Amazon is doing the same thing (but in a limited way) with it’s S3 storage product, and eBay is supposedly testing third party authentication for purposes of verifying (but not changing) user feedback ratings. [...]

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Yahoo’s BBAuth Will Allow Better Mashups « BIG Interactive — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:33:48 +0000

By: TechCrunch en français » Yahoo BBAuth permettra de créer de meilleurs mashups

Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:17:47 +0000

[...] Notons aussi qu’Amazon teste quelque chose d’équivalent avec S3 et eBay préparerait aussi une fonction permettant de vérifier l’identité d’un utilisateur et sa réputation (sans la modifier) [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Yahoo’s BBAuth Will Allow Better Mashups

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:49:22 +0000

[...] It’s worth noting that Amazon is testing the same idea with it’s S3 storage product, and eBay is supposedly testing third party authentication for purposes of verifying (but not changing) user feedback ratings. Yahoo [...]

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Limelight Networks、1.3億ドルの追加資金調達でウェブの未来を配信 — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:34:41 +0000

[...] AmazonのS3やOmnidriveなどのサービスのおかげでオンラインストレージがコモディティ化する中、スタートアップ企業は自前で巨大データストレージを所有することなしに革新を実現できるようになった－ Limelightのようなサービスプロバイダもまた、オンラインメディア企業の大きな重荷を払拭し、さらなる革新の誕生を支援している。 [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Limelight Networks lands $130m more to deliver the web’s future

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:00:48 +0000

[...] Just as online storage becoming a commodity thanks to services like Amazon’s S3 and Omnidrive has enabled startups to innovate without having to provide for their heavy data storage needs themselves – so too do service providers like Limelight take a big burden off of online media companies and make further innovation possible. [...]

By: one man army’s blog » Blog Archive » Exclusive Screenshots of Omnidrive

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:15:19 +0000

[...] in web 2.0 | Tuesday, July 25th, 2006 | Trackback “We first wrote about Australia/Silicon Valley based Omnidrive, an online storage company, in late2005. Since that time we’ve extensively reviewed various online storage services, including rumored products from Google and Microsoft, as well as Amazon’s storage API solution (update here) for application developers. This space continues to heat up, to say the least. Fast forward six months. Omnidrive is yet to launch, but they’ve continued to build out their service. Last week they invited in a new round of beta testers for their product, which includes an online and client interface (Windows only, Mac still in development). I’ve tried out the service and am posting a few screen shots.” Full story Omnidrive [...]

By: one man army’s blog » Blog Archive » Exclusive Screenshots of Omnidrive

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:14:56 +0000

[...] “We first wrote about Australia/Silicon Valley based Omnidrive, an online storage company, in late 2005. Since that time we’ve extensively reviewed various online storage services, including rumored products from Google and Microsoft, as well as Amazon’s storage API solution (update here) for application developers. This space continues to heat up, to say the least. [...]

By: asurroca

asurroca — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 07:41:46 +0000

So, it seems then that amazon.com has been using this system for its own storage for a while now, and decided that it was so good they could lease it out and make an extra buck and the same time. It definitely sounds more like something Google would have done, which begs the question: How long before we see Google Storage?

By: Srini

Srini — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:39:46 +0000

In response to Alex – it seems that Amazon itself uses S3 internally for many of its products. That’s about as good an SLA as you can get, if not better, and what convinved us to use S3 in our project.

By: links for 2006-07-13 - GurusBlog

links for 2006-07-13 - GurusBlog — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:08:07 +0000

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By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:32:12 +0000

Has anyone read S3’s terms of service? There is essentially no recourse in case amazon loses your data and no guarantee that you will have access to that data in the future. Amazon can turn it off with the flip of a switch.

I considered using it for the backend of a photo storage service, but didn’t think
A)Customers would be comfortable knowing their pictures were being held somewhere else
B)I could risk essentially betting the company on the hope that Amazon doesn’t lose files and/or turn off the service.

Hearing that smugmug uses it though is very intruiging. I wonder if they have any special guarantees from Amazon……

By: larry

larry — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:18:20 +0000

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By: Beau Hartshorne

Beau Hartshorne — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:32:44 +0000

Those SmugMug numbers are really impressive. Any idea what the estimates are based on? Were they able to lay off some employees? Did they save more on disk or bandwidth? Are they projections?

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:32:44 +0000

My apologies, I’ve added links to the other companies also highlighted in the news.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:54:06 +0000

Hey Moritz,

We’ve apparently fallen off techcrunch but not the face of the earth.

We’re at the Mashup Camp “Unconference” in Mountain View presenting ElephantDrive alongside Amazon. If geography permits, you should come check it out.

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http://www.elephantdrive.com

By: Ethiopic

Ethiopic — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:43:27 +0000

Ravi is right on.

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:11:19 +0000

Leafar, good call. Long live Googlezon, huh? lol

By: leafar

leafar — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:08:13 +0000

The Grid works !
just another piece of the EPIC puzzle.
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By: Ravi

Ravi — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:49:01 +0000

Sounds like exciting technology. But Retail and Data Storage do not gel together. I will be surprised if the adoption goes beyond startups and a few experimental usages. How are they gonna sell it? Whom are they gonna sell? Will they sell it to the enterprises? Will they have a direct sales force, support staff, professional services? Have they ever sold to enterprises? As a CIO, I would rather rely on a company that whose bread and butter is storage (or infrastrucure technology).

What is Amazon doing in the storage business? I guess it is the outcome of the whim of a few guys, rather than a strategic direction.

They should focus on building servcies focused on what they are known for.