You’re a pretty savvy Internet marketer. You’ve created some very nice large files for your business. Some of them might be video or audio files. Some are large groups of info products. They’re all taking up a lot of space on your hard drive.

Do you know what will happen if your computer decides to crash on you? Your hard drive, where you have all of that valuable work stored, might lose every bit of information contained on it.

Talk about a complete disaster! As a savvy Internet marketer, you have back ups on CD or DVD – that’s definitely a smart thing to do. But they also take up space, can get lost, or ruined in some household accident.

So what else can a smart marketer like you do to make sure that the hard work you produce never ever gets lost or ruined? You can use Amazon S3. Amazon S3 (short for Simple Storage Service) is a product of Amazon.com, a company that we’re all very familiar with.

What Amazon has done for us is offer the use of a $2 billion computer base that provides vast resources for storing huge amounts of data. You can store your own data on Amazon S3 for a very low cost.

It will be stored away from your own computer, away from your desk, on multiple Amazon servers. Here’s what happens to your data when you use Amazon S3:

You will upload your files to Amazon’s Simple Storage Service. Your files will then immediately be copied to more than one Amazon server in more than one location. This is important because if one server crashes, your data will be stored on other servers and still completely available to you at any time that you need it.

Your access to S3 and your data is fast and uncomplicated. Besides being a huge advantage to you for obvious reasons, there’s another excellent reason to use Amazon S3. Imagine that you have a video file or other large file that you want your customers to have immediate access to, no matter how many customers might be trying to access it at one time.

Amazon’s Simple Storage Service allows any number of users to be able to download your files at any time – even if there are hundreds or thousands of them doing it at the exact same moment! Because of Amazon’s huge server infrastructure, huge volumes of users will not cause slowdowns.

The cost to you to use Amazon S3 for storage is only a few cents per gigabyte. And you only pay for what you use. For the sake of ensuring that you never, ever lose access to your data, and for easy, fast and convenient access for users, Amazon S3 looks like a great addition to every marketer’s toolbox. Amazon will even pay you if they don’t provide 99.99% uptime.

Store information on your hard drive and by all means, back up on CD, DVD and your flash drive as well. But try Amazon S3, too. This is the ultimate way to be sure that you will always have quick access to your data and that you won’t ever lose it – even if your computer crashes or your dog chewed up your data DVDs!

You can bet I’ll be using this in the future.

Tiff

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