More and More Amazon S3 Uses
We are utilizing S3 for a few of our customers here at Pelago and we are contemplating switching over to it for Intervals document support.
This mashable.com post covers a variety of uses and applications for S3. You really can do a lot of different things with it and more applications roll out every day. Utilizing 3rd party file storage helps level performance spikes and potential scaling problems if you happen to have a popular web application.
Here in Santa Barbara, a company named Right Scale is building a dashboard and tools to help manage the variety of Amazon Web Services that exist. This is definitely needed. When we used S3 for the first time the first question that our client asked was “where is the GUI so I can see my files”.
Tags: amazon, Intervals, s3, santa barbara, web 2.0
