Paul Sturgess

Amazon's Simple Storage Solution (S3)

Amazon is undoubtedly one of the web’s most successful online shops, a global brand, with operations all over the world. However, it’s not just selling products anymore.

Just one of the growing pains Amazon has faced over the years was the requirement for a scalable storage infrastructure.

Amazon invested in building their own solution and with their experience and expertise in this area they realised a business opportunity was there to be had and released their Simple Store Solution (S3) to the web industry.

S3 offers unlimited storage with high availability, low latency and low costs.

Recently at Kyan we’ve been increasingly taking advantage of S3 in our projects. Amazon’s storage is redundant and unlimited which makes it perfect for backups.

It also allows businesses that work with large amounts of collateral to concentrate on their core competencies and not waste resources implementing and managing a storage infrastructure.

Amazing really when you think Amazon started back in 1995 as a simple on-line book store.

 

Tags: amazon, s3, storage, web, services

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