Comments on: Amazon S3 Reaches 5 Billion Stored Objects http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/ Startup and Technology News Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:23:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: 40 Terabytes More Data For Amazon S3 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-2302257 40 Terabytes More Data For Amazon S3 Fri, 16 May 2008 23:55:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-2302257 [...] S3 has been on a bit of a roll lately, recently surpassing 5 billion stored objects and growing [...] [...] S3 has been on a bit of a roll lately, recently surpassing 5 billion stored objects and growing [...]

]]> By: Nirvanix To Challenge Amazon S3 | Tekjuice.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1546738 Nirvanix To Challenge Amazon S3 | Tekjuice.com Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:06:57 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1546738 [...] San Diego-based Nirvanix to launch in the next few weeks. It aims to compete with Amazon’s popular S3 storage web service and provide web developers another choice for online [...] [...] San Diego-based Nirvanix to launch in the next few weeks. It aims to compete with Amazon’s popular S3 storage web service and provide web developers another choice for online [...]

]]> By: Nirvanix To Challenge Amazon S3 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1541915 Nirvanix To Challenge Amazon S3 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:21:56 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1541915 [...] San Diego-based Nirvanix to launch in the next few weeks. It aims to compete with Amazon’s popular S3 storage web service and provide web developers another choice for online [...] [...] San Diego-based Nirvanix to launch in the next few weeks. It aims to compete with Amazon’s popular S3 storage web service and provide web developers another choice for online [...]

]]> By: smime » Blog Archive » 5 Milliarden Objekte auf Amazon S3 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1497406 smime » Blog Archive » 5 Milliarden Objekte auf Amazon S3 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:43:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1497406 [...] interessante Statistiken, bereits über 5 Milliarden Objekte auf Amazon S3 und Services die ihr gesamtes Backup in der Grösse von 40 Terabyte auf S3 verschieben. Ich bin [...] [...] interessante Statistiken, bereits über 5 Milliarden Objekte auf Amazon S3 und Services die ihr gesamtes Backup in der Grösse von 40 Terabyte auf S3 verschieben. Ich bin [...]

]]> By: Amazon Web Services...not obvious but "clear" strategic synergies « CoRrElate http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1372923 Amazon Web Services...not obvious but "clear" strategic synergies « CoRrElate Sat, 12 May 2007 17:02:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1372923 [...] Amazon S3 Reaches 5 Billion Stored Objects by TechCrunch [...] [...] Amazon S3 Reaches 5 Billion Stored Objects by TechCrunch [...]

]]> By: Izaxon Video http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1368842 Izaxon Video Tue, 08 May 2007 12:41:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1368842 Amazon S3 offers incomparable service in terms of speed, robustness and pricing. We use it for our Video solution and it has proven to be a flexible, scalable and easy-to-use platform. Amazon S3 offers incomparable service in terms of speed, robustness and pricing. We use it for our Video solution and it has proven to be a flexible, scalable and easy-to-use platform.

]]> By: J.D. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1336038 J.D. Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:00:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1336038 "I just hope with all this investment in infrastructure that they keep their focus on great service." I wholeheartedly agree with Gal. Their great customer service has created a very high trust factor within their core e-tailing business. That customer trust factor also allows Amazon associates like me to earn a little change from their E-Commerce web service. http://www.jangle.net “I just hope with all this investment in infrastructure that they keep their focus on great service.”

I wholeheartedly agree with Gal. Their great customer service has created a very high trust factor within their core e-tailing business.

That customer trust factor also allows Amazon associates like me to earn a little change from their E-Commerce web service.

http://www.jangle.net

]]> By: Adam Bruce http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335978 Adam Bruce Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:18:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335978 @#24 Alejandro, We are very pleased using S3, and I think we're up to 3TB of data we have over there.. that said I would not use them as an "Akamai" type service since their stuff is not on the edge of the network. Latency is not terrible, but since it's likely to be different from your dynamic pages, I don't think it's a great idea to serve stuff off S3 live, rather we are using them for archiving and "right click save as" type links. If you're looking for a high performance cache system then you may want to look into Limelight or Akamai, and maybe use S3 as the index server (where the cache servers pull their file). As for cost savings, we're seeing about a 60% savings in server/storage management, head count costs and the like. Plus we can scale S3 as needed which is fantastic. Speed tp upgrade has been a big growth limitation for us. @#24 Alejandro,
We are very pleased using S3, and I think we’re up to 3TB of data we have over there.. that said I would not use them as an “Akamai” type service since their stuff is not on the edge of the network. Latency is not terrible, but since it’s likely to be different from your dynamic pages, I don’t think it’s a great idea to serve stuff off S3 live, rather we are using them for archiving and “right click save as” type links. If you’re looking for a high performance cache system then you may want to look into Limelight or Akamai, and maybe use S3 as the index server (where the cache servers pull their file).

As for cost savings, we’re seeing about a 60% savings in server/storage management, head count costs and the like. Plus we can scale S3 as needed which is fantastic. Speed tp upgrade has been a big growth limitation for us.

]]> By: Gerard http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335680 Gerard Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:48:31 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335680 With tons of engineers workin on their web services, i wonder why Ec2 is still crappy. It will never replace traditional hosting, unfortunately, as I was told by one of their engineers in the forums. also can someone fix the S3 add-on for firefox. it's an abandonware. With tons of engineers workin on their web services, i wonder why Ec2 is still crappy. It will never replace traditional hosting, unfortunately, as I was told by one of their engineers in the forums.

also can someone fix the S3 add-on for firefox. it’s an abandonware.

]]> By: Peter http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335646 Peter Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:02:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335646 Amazon S3 is a cool service and I wander when it will make the top 25 online backup companies list at the review site: BackupReview.info This site is an excellent website for online backup information, news and articles. It lists more than 400 online backup companies and ranks the top 25 on a monthly basis. Amazon S3 is a cool service and I wander when it will make the top 25 online backup companies list at the review site:

BackupReview.info

This site is an excellent website for online backup information, news and articles. It lists more than 400 online backup companies and ranks the top 25 on a monthly basis.

]]> By: Lou A http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335397 Lou A Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:50:20 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335397 I am an Elephantdrive user, and with the large amount of data that I frequently need to access while on the road, I have to say that the unlimited amount of storage that comes with my subscription is -quite- useful. S3's pricing makes it less palatable. I am an Elephantdrive user, and with the large amount of data that I frequently need to access while on the road, I have to say that the unlimited amount of storage that comes with my subscription is -quite- useful. S3’s pricing makes it less palatable.

]]> By: links for 2007-04-18 « Simply… A User http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335388 links for 2007-04-18 « Simply… A User Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:42:36 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335388 [...] Amazon S3 Reaches 5 Billion Stored Objects (tags: s3 amazon article reference webservices web2.0 **) [...] [...] Amazon S3 Reaches 5 Billion Stored Objects (tags: s3 amazon article reference webservices web2.0 **) [...]

]]> By: Little. Yellow. Different. « ElephantDrive http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335355 Little. Yellow. Different. « ElephantDrive Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:09:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335355 [...] Okay, so, ElephantDrive isn’t yellow, and it’s definitely not Nuprin, but, this article over at Techcrunch today manages to highlight its strengths, even as it sings the prasies of [...] [...] Okay, so, ElephantDrive isn’t yellow, and it’s definitely not Nuprin, but, this article over at Techcrunch today manages to highlight its strengths, even as it sings the prasies of [...]

]]> By: Frank M http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335342 Frank M Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:53:46 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335342 How about latency and other stats? Are these available? If yes, can someone post the link? Looks to be a great offering. How about latency and other stats? Are these available?

If yes, can someone post the link?

Looks to be a great offering.

]]> By: Nathan Schmidt http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335318 Nathan Schmidt Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:33:06 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335318 Couple of notes here -- first, S3 is a solid, relatively fast, and very price-competitive product. I archive my personal data there, so far only a few dozen Gb but it's been painless. The reason we didn't go with it for our primary storage system is latency -- we weren't able to push bits in and out fast enough with consistently low jitter and lag. We're certainly looking at this as backup storage, and that's been the approach a lot of companies seem to have taken, i.e. storage for the large, immutable blobs of primary customer data, with local infrastructure used for low-lag serving activity on derivatives. The second point is about people wondering why VCs aren't pushing more heavily into this market. The reason they're holding off is that there isn't unbounded upside in this kind of play - it's capital-intensive, has the slow uptake of something like enterprise sales (which it is), and meanwhile you're paying down the expensive fast machines you needed to buy to prove to potential customers that your system scales and is fast enough to meet their needs. In the mean time those 320Gb drives you bought are obsoleted by Some Competitor who paid even less this week for his 750Gb drives and can offer that same capacity for half of your super-low-just-for-early-customers rates. Storage is a reasonable example here but CPU cycles moves the same way. We just built out a second tier of our servers, just a few months after our first tier, paying 20% less per identical machine. No VC wants to be in that kind of race to the bottom. Couple of notes here — first, S3 is a solid, relatively fast, and very price-competitive product. I archive my personal data there, so far only a few dozen Gb but it’s been painless.

The reason we didn’t go with it for our primary storage system is latency — we weren’t able to push bits in and out fast enough with consistently low jitter and lag. We’re certainly looking at this as backup storage, and that’s been the approach a lot of companies seem to have taken, i.e. storage for the large, immutable blobs of primary customer data, with local infrastructure used for low-lag serving activity on derivatives.

The second point is about people wondering why VCs aren’t pushing more heavily into this market. The reason they’re holding off is that there isn’t unbounded upside in this kind of play - it’s capital-intensive, has the slow uptake of something like enterprise sales (which it is), and meanwhile you’re paying down the expensive fast machines you needed to buy to prove to potential customers that your system scales and is fast enough to meet their needs. In the mean time those 320Gb drives you bought are obsoleted by Some Competitor who paid even less this week for his 750Gb drives and can offer that same capacity for half of your super-low-just-for-early-customers rates.

Storage is a reasonable example here but CPU cycles moves the same way. We just built out a second tier of our servers, just a few months after our first tier, paying 20% less per identical machine. No VC wants to be in that kind of race to the bottom.

]]> By: David Mackey http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335299 David Mackey Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:14:27 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335299 I am surprised that investors are not seeing the long-term potential for services such as those Amazon is offering. By creating a redundant, scalable storage solutions that requires minimal management they have created a low-maintenance income generator, which can be expected to create long-term dependable revenue from continued customers as well as continued growth as the service grows. S3 is still in its very infancy, and as applications for it continue to expand (especially backup applications) its utilization will become much more widespread. Though, Streamload could become a ferocious competitor if they have get their act together, but the slow pace at which they are advancing in the API department causes me great doubts. I am surprised that investors are not seeing the long-term potential for services such as those Amazon is offering. By creating a redundant, scalable storage solutions that requires minimal management they have created a low-maintenance income generator, which can be expected to create long-term dependable revenue from continued customers as well as continued growth as the service grows. S3 is still in its very infancy, and as applications for it continue to expand (especially backup applications) its utilization will become much more widespread. Though, Streamload could become a ferocious competitor if they have get their act together, but the slow pace at which they are advancing in the API department causes me great doubts.

]]> By: Amazon Secret Shopping http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335282 Amazon Secret Shopping Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:50:16 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335282 S3 performance and reliability is great. This service have very great potential and will move further.... S3 performance and reliability is great. This service have very great potential and will move further….

]]> By: Amy Wilsch http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335274 Amy Wilsch Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:41:40 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335274 we're going to use S3 as our back-up. Glad to see the endorsements from others using it. @24 Alejandro - yes. we’re going to use S3 as our back-up. Glad to see the endorsements from others using it.

@24 Alejandro - yes.

]]> By: Mitchell Orph http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335209 Mitchell Orph Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:25:20 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335209 I use Elephant Drive, and I like the flat-rate -- if I start slinging lots of GB around (oh damn, I need to tweak that one and upload it again...) I'd rather not think about whether it is starting to cost me. Someone else's problem, I have other stuff to do. I use Elephant Drive, and I like the flat-rate — if I start slinging lots of GB around (oh damn, I need to tweak that one and upload it again…) I’d rather not think about whether it is starting to cost me. Someone else’s problem, I have other stuff to do.

]]> By: RaJesh Anandakrishnan http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335195 RaJesh Anandakrishnan Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:13:44 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335195 Gal Josefsberg #20, Customer Loyalty is very good with Amazon. But don't know, if the maintanance cost goes up for s3 and subscription charges should not increase. Thats what worried about in flickr account too. www.suggestusability.com Gal Josefsberg

#20, Customer Loyalty is very good with Amazon.

But don’t know, if the maintanance cost goes up for s3 and subscription charges should not increase. Thats what worried about in flickr account too.

http://www.suggestusability.com

]]> By: Ben Widhelm http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335136 Ben Widhelm Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:17:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335136 Amongst the companies making use of S3, I believe one of the more compelling is ElephantDrive. The desktop software provides simple desktop synchronization tools and abstracts the technical and billing relationship with S3. Full disclosure: I cofounded the company. While its certainly nice not to pay for storage that you don't use, its also nice not to have to worry about a bill growing every month... 1 GB for free and $9.95 per PC per month for all you can eat. Depending on how frequently you're accessing your data, you could actually be saving money over S3 pricing. It goes without saying that we believe Amazon Web Services and specifically S3 are the most innovative on the web. We're looking forward to other large web enterprises releasing similar offerings. An expanded ecosystem for storage-as-a-service strengthens our platform and allows us to pass along better performance and pricing to our users as it becomes available... Amongst the companies making use of S3, I believe one of the more compelling is ElephantDrive. The desktop software provides simple desktop synchronization tools and abstracts the technical and billing relationship with S3. Full disclosure: I cofounded the company.

While its certainly nice not to pay for storage that you don’t use, its also nice not to have to worry about a bill growing every month… 1 GB for free and $9.95 per PC per month for all you can eat. Depending on how frequently you’re accessing your data, you could actually be saving money over S3 pricing.

It goes without saying that we believe Amazon Web Services and specifically S3 are the most innovative on the web. We’re looking forward to other large web enterprises releasing similar offerings. An expanded ecosystem for storage-as-a-service strengthens our platform and allows us to pass along better performance and pricing to our users as it becomes available…

]]> By: Alejandro http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335087 Alejandro Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:46:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335087 link #19 AskMrVideo: http://www.askm...deo.com/cam/s3/ VERY COOL! The irony of this story being posted today. Last night I sent an email to my CTO to review this offering for our new start up. On the surface being a business guy this looks good, under the covers being a business guy - the truth is I have no clue. Am I missing something here or is Amazon offering to be a large part of my data center engineering team which in turn will save me $$$ as well as supplying all the hardware and again saving me $$$? link #19 AskMrVideo: http://www.askm…deo.com/cam/s3/

VERY COOL!

The irony of this story being posted today. Last night I sent an email to my CTO to review this offering for our new start up. On the surface being a business guy this looks good, under the covers being a business guy - the truth is I have no clue.
Am I missing something here or is Amazon offering to be a large part of my data center engineering team which in turn will save me $$$ as well as supplying all the hardware and again saving me $$$?

]]> By: Chad http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335018 Chad Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:36:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335018 Just thought I'd add one more voice to the fans of S3. I've used it in a number of applications and found it be be very simple to use. Given that I mostly work in MS technologies, I'd like to see Microsoft come out with something similar to E2. My guess, however, is that they'd see it as a threat to their core server license business... Chad www.wtfShouldIDo.com Just thought I’d add one more voice to the fans of S3. I’ve used it in a number of applications and found it be be very simple to use. Given that I mostly work in MS technologies, I’d like to see Microsoft come out with something similar to E2. My guess, however, is that they’d see it as a threat to their core server license business…

Chad
http://www.wtfShouldIDo.com

]]> By: Adam Bruce http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335002 Adam Bruce Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:16:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1335002 We started using S3 as a giant off line Disk back up and Archive service... and so far I have to say we're very pleased with it. We're storing just shy of a million videos there and they're saving us a good 60% on our Storage management costs, not to mention it's capacity on demand which is fantastic for us. Good job Amazon, keep it up!!! We started using S3 as a giant off line Disk back up and Archive service… and so far I have to say we’re very pleased with it. We’re storing just shy of a million videos there and they’re saving us a good 60% on our Storage management costs, not to mention it’s capacity on demand which is fantastic for us.

Good job Amazon, keep it up!!!

]]> By: sc http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1334976 sc Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:48:46 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/17/amazon-s3-reaches-5-billion-stored-objects/#comment-1334976 First... why is it not ok to have low operating margins when you can make more sales? It is the profit that matters... Second, analysts and investment bankers very commonly use the wrong comps to bolster their argument. BnN and Walmart do not have high-NPV projects going on, and aren't exploring creating and moving into markets that don't exist - for instance - utility computing. These ventures will pay off in the future (but they are risky). First… why is it not ok to have low operating margins when you can make more sales? It is the profit that matters…

Second, analysts and investment bankers very commonly use the wrong comps to bolster their argument. BnN and Walmart do not have high-NPV projects going on, and aren’t exploring creating and moving into markets that don’t exist - for instance - utility computing. These ventures will pay off in the future (but they are risky).

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