SmugMug.com Use Amazon S3 To Save $500K


	SmugMug.com Use Amazon S3 To Save $500K

databucketpro

10-17-2007 7:30 PM

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databucketpro says:

Yet another company that is using the Amazon S3 Web Service to save money in its business... this is something that ANY small business can be doing by using Data Bucket Pro to work with Amazon S3

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