Comments on: Amazon S3: The “speed of light” problem http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/ Thought stream from SmugMug's CEO & Chief Geek Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:54:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-hemorrhage hourly 1 By: Jacinta F. http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-50101 Jacinta F. Sun, 27 May 2007 03:27:18 +0000 http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-50101 Jenifer I would like to speak with you about erica r. Please email me. Jenifer I would like to speak with you about erica r. Please email me.

]]> By: jenifer meadows http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-48285 jenifer meadows Thu, 03 May 2007 16:01:13 +0000 http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-48285 erica roush of captured moments photogarphy is a con artist she prys on people on a very vulerable time she took my wedding photos oct 14 2006 and i have yet to recieve them i am in the process of taking legal action i suggest any one else with this problem does too erica roush of captured moments photogarphy is a con artist she prys on people on a very vulerable time she took my wedding photos oct 14 2006 and i have yet to recieve them i am in the process of taking legal action i suggest any one else with this problem does too

]]> By: Tiffani http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-43949 Tiffani Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:42:36 +0000 http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-43949 I won't be at your talk at ETech (unfortunately!), but I wanted to know if in using S3, you've had any problems from users that know that their data is stored in a place that you don't have any physical access to. I'm the throes of constructing a web service right now that relies heavily on S3 for storage of users' personal data. We plan to encrypt everything before sending it over to S3 (because a privacy breach would really put us under), but personally, I'm still wondering how to pacify potential customers that we've already talked to who are concerned about our use of S3 instead of our own physically-accessible servers for storage. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance! I won’t be at your talk at ETech (unfortunately!), but I wanted to know if in using S3, you’ve had any problems from users that know that their data is stored in a place that you don’t have any physical access to. I’m the throes of constructing a web service right now that relies heavily on S3 for storage of users’ personal data. We plan to encrypt everything before sending it over to S3 (because a privacy breach would really put us under), but personally, I’m still wondering how to pacify potential customers that we’ve already talked to who are concerned about our use of S3 instead of our own physically-accessible servers for storage. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!

]]> By: onethumb http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-43152 onethumb Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:09:30 +0000 http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-43152 We wrote our own software layer that just reads & writes to S3 whenever we need to. It took less than a day to write (there've been tweaks and modifications since then) since the S3 API is so simple, and it's very fast. We wrote our own software layer that just reads & writes to S3 whenever we need to.

It took less than a day to write (there’ve been tweaks and modifications since then) since the S3 API is so simple, and it’s very fast.

]]> By: Chris http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-43149 Chris Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:55:58 +0000 http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-43149 What do you guys use to interact this S3's API? Did you write an app to upload files into their system or did you find/purchase a product? So far any of the products I find you either get the performance without manageability or you get manageability but dog slow upload speeds. What do you guys use to interact this S3’s API? Did you write an app to upload files into their system or did you find/purchase a product? So far any of the products I find you either get the performance without manageability or you get manageability but dog slow upload speeds.

]]> By: DONNA LUCAS http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-40903 DONNA LUCAS Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:31:08 +0000 http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-40903 We have been taken by Erica Roush - Captured Moments Studio. She took our pictures on 9/3/06 and we have yet to see our pictures. According to our contract, she was suppose to give us a disk, our prints both black and white and in color, printed. 2 -8x10's of our choice. We have left numerous messages with her, no return calls, e-mails etc. There are many more brides that were taken by her. We are taking her to court on Friday, 3/17. Please do not allow her to continue to scam more brides. She is using other names. Donna Lucas Bel Air, MD 443-797-9438 We have been taken by Erica Roush - Captured Moments Studio. She took our pictures on 9/3/06 and we have yet to see our pictures. According to our contract, she was suppose to give us a disk, our prints both black and white and in color, printed. 2 -8×10’s of our choice. We have left numerous messages with her, no return calls, e-mails etc. There are many more brides that were taken by her. We are taking her to court on Friday, 3/17. Please do not allow her to continue to scam more brides. She is using other names.

Donna Lucas
Bel Air, MD
443-797-9438

]]> By: Paul M. Watson http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-40718 Paul M. Watson Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:28:50 +0000 http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-40718 Good point about S3 being a building block and an Amazon CDN being another building-block. Then you can choose what you want in your S3 storage available on the CDN, or use their CDN for content not on S3. Good point about S3 being a building block and an Amazon CDN being another building-block. Then you can choose what you want in your S3 storage available on the CDN, or use their CDN for content not on S3.

]]> By: Brenda Brown http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-40675 Brenda Brown Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:02:22 +0000 http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-40675 To Whom It May Concern: Erica Roush, Captured Moments Studio, performed wedding photography services for us on October 28, 2006. Despite numerous attempts to contact Ms. Roush (voicemail and email) regarding our wedding photo CDs, we have received one return call (several months ago), two emails making empty commitments, and no wedding photo CDs. Ms. Roush’s photography service advertisement indicates a 2-4 week turnaround time (see attached). The last time we communicated via email with Ms. Roush she assured us our wedding photo CDs would be put in the mail the very next day, 2-3 day priority mail (December 19, 2006) ~ See attached copy of email correspondence. We thought you may have concerns hosting someone that is misrepresenting their services, or perhaps help us to get in contact with Ms. Roush to retrieve our wedding photo CDs. Ms. Roush’s Contact information is as follows: Erica Roush, Photographer Captured Moments Studio Mailing Address: 1080 Carlton Place #2D Frederick, Maryland 21703 Contact #1: 1-240-529-8651 Contact #2: 1-301-663-3837 Email: capturedmomentsstudio@msn.com Website: www.capturedmomentsstudio.smugmug.com We prefer not to make this a legal matter, but we feel at this point we may have no other choice. All we want are our wedding photo CDs for which we paid $650.00 to Ms. Roush, with cancelled checks to prove it. Please - anything you can do to help us is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Brenda and Jeffrey Brown 717-321-4893 Mechanicsburg, PA Erica – Please - if you could just let us know when you will be mailing our wedding CDs. As we have said all along – that is all we want. Please… To Whom It May Concern:

Erica Roush, Captured Moments Studio, performed wedding photography services for us on October 28, 2006. Despite numerous attempts to contact Ms. Roush (voicemail and email) regarding our wedding photo CDs, we have received one return call (several months ago), two emails making empty commitments, and no wedding photo CDs.

Ms. Roush’s photography service advertisement indicates a 2-4 week turnaround time (see attached). The last time we communicated via email with Ms. Roush she assured us our wedding photo CDs would be put in the mail the very next day, 2-3 day priority mail (December 19, 2006) ~ See attached copy of email correspondence.

We thought you may have concerns hosting someone that is misrepresenting their services, or perhaps help us to get in contact with Ms. Roush to retrieve our wedding photo CDs.

Ms. Roush’s Contact information is as follows:

Erica Roush, Photographer
Captured Moments Studio
Mailing Address:
1080 Carlton Place #2D
Frederick, Maryland 21703
Contact #1: 1-240-529-8651
Contact #2: 1-301-663-3837
Email: capturedmomentsstudio@msn.com
Website: http://www.capturedmomentsstudio.smugmug.com

We prefer not to make this a legal matter, but we feel at this point we may have no other choice. All we want are our wedding photo CDs for which we paid $650.00 to Ms. Roush, with cancelled checks to prove it.

Please - anything you can do to help us is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Brenda and Jeffrey Brown
717-321-4893
Mechanicsburg, PA

Erica –
Please - if you could just let us know when you will be mailing our wedding CDs. As we have said all along – that is all we want. Please…

]]> By: PanMan http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-40564 PanMan Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:51:37 +0000 http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/03/08/amazon-s3-the-speed-of-light-problem/#comment-40564 And that's why I would like to see an S3 datacenter in europe. Or an S3 competitor, with similar offering. Where for you it's 60ms, here it's 200. That's why I don't host all my stuff there. But I'm guessing the European market still isn't that interesting to amazon, and the intercontinental bandwith will be more expensive, if they decide to set up a mirror here. And that’s why I would like to see an S3 datacenter in europe. Or an S3 competitor, with similar offering. Where for you it’s 60ms, here it’s 200. That’s why I don’t host all my stuff there.
But I’m guessing the European market still isn’t that interesting to amazon, and the intercontinental bandwith will be more expensive, if they decide to set up a mirror here.

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