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Originally Posted by lamerhooD
Amazon S3, worth it?
If not, what do you use, another competiting service, custom, what?
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I am a big fan of Cloud computing. The EC2/ S3 is great. Pay for what you use in terms of bandwidth.
Amazon claims this is the same scalable storage infrastructure as they use for their regular Amazon.com site.
The only small drawbacks I see are the costs associated with uploading or moving around content and also the fact that there is no guarantee your data will not be lost.
SmugMug photo service claims to be saving $500K+ per year by using S3
Amazon says the s3 was designed to provide scalability, high availability, and low latency at drastically reduced costs.