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03.22.10 Using Amazon's S3 To Solve Your Storage Issues  By Denise O'Berry I 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.) Unless you join the group  you won't have that benefit, but I did find the next best thing 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. Comments About the Author: Denise O'Berry is a small business expert who provides tools, tips and advice to help small business owners be successful. O'Berry is the author of "Small Business Cash Flow: Strategies for Making Your Business a Financial Success." Her blog can be found at Just for Small Business. |
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