Comments on: ETech 2007 SmugMug Amazon Slides are Up!

By: Amazon S3 - Mi Experiencia (1) | XyberLife

Amazon S3 - Mi Experiencia (1) | XyberLife — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:38:07 +0000

[...] económico y confiable es Sumgmug, un servicio pago de alojamiento de fotografías tipo Flickr que ha reportado ahorros de un millón de dólares al delegar su almacenamiento a Amazon [...]

By: Flexible Web Services - Red Leopard

Flexible Web Services - Red Leopard — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:25:41 +0000

[...] multiple machines with redundancy, and so on. Looking at that solution lead me to smugFS. And to Don MacAskill’s presentation on Scalability. Crap! I said. I don’t need to host the flatfile’s at our [...]

By: Brief Introduction To Cloud Computing — Keenpath

Brief Introduction To Cloud Computing — Keenpath — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:39:42 +0000

[...] a successful photography community, saved an estimated $2 $1 Million dollars (edit per this link) in 2007 by using Amazon S3 cloud storage. Organizations and individuals can benefit from mass [...]

By: Lessons on How to Use Amazon Web Services « HighContrast

Lessons on How to Use Amazon Web Services « HighContrast — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:50:29 +0000

[...] AWS outage comes a link to a great presentation on how to successfully use AWS from SmugMug founder Don MacAskill given at ETech last [...]

By: Melvin Ram

Melvin Ram — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:04:58 +0000

Your slides won’t open for me. It says it’s unsupported or damaged. I tried downloading it a few times to make sure it wasn’t just a corruption during download. Could you email it to me. Thanks.

~ mel

By: Can Amazon Make Startupping A Science? « GigaOM

Can Amazon Make Startupping A Science? « GigaOM — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:58:25 +0000

[...] But the money part is important too. SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill reiterated he’s saved $692,000 using AWS for his photo-sharing startup. He said that figure was as of April of this year and would be higher if he recalculated. [...]

By: EwanSilver.com » June 21 2007

EwanSilver.com » June 21 2007 — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:55:29 +0000

[...] Amazon Web Services and the lack of a SLA Interesting comments from Greg Linden and Doug Kaye where they take differing views and I think they are both right. Those SLAs suck if you are trying to run a business that is succesful – +1 to Greg. The economics of EC2 make it a very cheap way of boot strapping an idea. The probability is that the idea will fail any way. +1 to Doug. SmugMug pdf from Greg [...]

By: SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Amazon S3: Show me the money

SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Amazon S3: Show me the money — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:18:09 +0000

[...] UPDATE 4/30/07: I’ve updated these numbers since this post was written in November 2006. It’s now been 12 months and we’ve saved almost exactly $1M. You can see the numbers in my ETech slides. [...]

By: Jacques Marneweck

Jacques Marneweck — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:19:06 +0000

Don, interesting presentation. How are you abusing libcurl to get added speed?

By: PanMan

PanMan — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:32:44 +0000

Thanks for the explanation: that makes sense.