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January 17, 2007

Amazon S3

After weeks of testing, we have now turned on Amazon S3 for storage. S3 is a way of storing files on the Internet using Amazon's infrastructure. Think of it as a big cloud where you can put things and get them in near real time when you need to. Using S3 allows us to continue to offer 500MB with all Free Editions and maintain a low cost for our future paid Editions. This will have no effect on how the system works. You will save files and photos the same way. You will retrieve them the same way. But, they will now be distributed on Amazon's network which puts the files in multiple locations as away of backing them up. We set the private setting on all files so only we can access them. We are a big believer in the future of web services and think this is one of the most impressive we have seen.

Go here to learn more about Amazon S3

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