CloudFront. Download this AWS-sponsored Frost & Sullivan white paper to learn why amazon.com chose Amazon CloudFront to deliver the vast majority of its global CDN traffic.
Download the Amazon CloudFront CDN paper . Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments. Learn about Amazon CloudFront's latest features on the Amazon CloudFront What's New page. Amazon CloudFront can be used to deliver your entire website, including dynamic, static, streaming, and interactive content using a global network of edge locations. Amazon CloudFront Usage Charts Track trends in data transfer and requests (both HTTP and HTTPS) for each of your CloudFront Web distributions.Learn more » Amazon CloudFront Support for Custom SSL Use your own domain name and your own SSL certificate to deliver content over HTTPS.Learn more » Replacing my home backup server with Amazon's S3. Not too long ago, Amazon released their Simple Storage Service (or “S3″ for short).
It provides a hosted storage platform which developers can build all sorts of applications on top of. Smugmug, a popular photo sharing web site, is using it to store and host pictures. I’ve been considering using S3 as the backend to an on-line backup, since I’d been beating that for a while (see: Swimming Pools and Hard Disks and Cheap On-Line Storage Coming Soon). In a few days I’ll write about how to do this–I’m only partially through the process right now. But right now I want to lay out the motivation for doing this. The Cost of A Home Server Amazon’s pricing model is pretty compelling.
My home server is a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 that contains 3 250GB SATA disks in a RAID configuration, plus an 80GB boot and OS disk. My home server costs me a minimum of $13 every four weeks just to leave powered on and idling, or $170 per year. The Cost on S3 Assuming that growth rate has me up to 190GB five years from now. 16 Sites and Resources for Amazon S3. Nirvanix, a competitor to Amazon's S3 storage service, launches today.
But S3 itself is already a huge hit with developers: we've put together a collection of sites that use S3 for their hosting and storage needs, plus some tools to help you manage S3. Feel free to add more suggestions in the comments. Sites That Utilize S3 AdaptiveBlue.com - A service for Firefox that allows you to save items you find around the web. Autopendium.com - Add your old car to the system and keep updates and show it off as you restore it.
BigContacts.com - Online contact management you can access from the web or your mobile phone. Amazon Search Integration.