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Amazon S3 Not Just for Tech Geeks

amazonss3logoI know you’ve heard of Amazon.com, but am not sure you’ve heard of their online — in the clouds — storage service called Amazon S3 (S3 = Simple Storage Service).

Originally built for those wonderful tech geeks and developers among us who create very cool programs and applications to make our life simpler, Amazon S3 is not just for geeks anymore.

It’s an excellent solution to storage issues — things like pictures, videos, audios — all the stuff that’s going to become run of the mill as the interwebs move forward and grow. And it’s dirt cheap. I’ve had several files stored on my account since I set it up last year and my charges have been a whopping $ .05 a month. Yep, you read that right. A whole five cents a month!

It’s not yet super easy to use for non-techies like you and me. But the good news is that tons of “make it easy” tools have been built and it’s getting simpler.

I was lucky. When I decided to get started, one of my mastermind group members, Mark Mason of MasonWorld, walked me through the process. (That’s one of the huge benefits of a mastermind group.)

I found a really good tutorial for you to get started. You will find it here – A Beginner’s Guide to Amazon S3.

And once you get it going, you’re going to want the S3 Fox Addon for Firefox, S3 Browser, and the S3 WordPress Plugin. All of them are free.

There are a ton of uses for Amazon S3. If you haven’t looked at them as a possible benefit to your business, now would be a good time.

Let’s talk about it. I’d love to hear how you are using Amazon S3 and what tools you use to make the experience easier.

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Comments

  1. Andy, CloudBerry Lab says:
    March 15, 2010 at 4:32 am

    I always enjoy learning what other people think about Amazon Web Services and how they use them. Check out my very own tool CloudBerry Explorer that helps to
    manage S3 on Windows . It is a freeware. http://s3.cloudberrylab.com/

    Reply
    • deniseoberry says:
      March 15, 2010 at 4:58 am

      Thanks Andy. I’m always happy to hear about new tools that can make small business owners’ lives easier. I’ll take a look at it.

      Reply

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