SmugMug is the poster child for Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, known among us simple folks as Amazon S3. Even though some other startups rely on S3 for their storage (I noticed MyBlogLog pulling their stats and data off S3 recently), SmugMug has been pretty vocal about their S3 savings.
So what about the recent outages that S3 is becoming notorious for? Deal breaker, or cost of doing business? Don MacAskill tells the story:
S3 is a new service and yet remarkably reliable. Since April 2006, they’ve been more reliable than our own internal systems, which I consider to be quite reliable. Nothing’s perfect, but they’re doing quite well so far for a brand-new service. Oh, and their services has also saved our butts a few times. I’ll try to write those up in the near future, too.