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Major Amazon S3 Outage Hits Internet

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S3 is used by many websites for storing data, images, and video. Securities And Exchange Commission , Slack , Quora , and many others, have been unavailable since Amazon reported "increased error rates" out of its US-EAST-1 zone. READ MORE>>.

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BlueCava Gets $9.5M For Device ID Technology

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The round was led by S3 Ventures, and also included Mark Cuban and Tim Headington. S3's Brian R. Irvine-based BlueCava , a developer of device identification technology used for both online advertising tracking, as well as fraud prevention, said Tuesday that it has raised $9.5M in a funding round.

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Epics3 Takes On Photo Sharing

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Epics3 also allows users to serve up photos using their own domain names, and can link photos stored in the service with Amazon S3. The new company, headed by Joe Moreno, said it will allow users to post photos to the web, and that it will share advertising revenue with users when people view their photos. READ MORE>>.

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BlueCava Gets $13M For Ad Technology

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According to the company, the second round of funding came from S3 Ventures, Performance Edge Partners and Zeitgeist Capital. The company also said it has appointed Phil Myers as Executive Chairman--Myers was previously CEO of StoredIQ (also backed by S3), and also served at Cyclone Commerce, SalesLogix, and other firms.

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Nirvanix Names Marketing VP

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Nirvanix operates a cloud storage service, which allows developers to store their data on the Internet via an API; the company also serves the corporate market, and competes with Amazon's cloud storage service, S3. READ MORE>>.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates. You need to push out anything truly persistent to another machine and/or storage, e.g., S3.

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DreamHost Readies Wider OpenStack Rollout

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DreamHost also has been promoting its DreamObjects service, a cloud-based storage offering that is similar to Amazon''s S3 storage services, and which is powered by DreamHost spinout Ceph''s cloud storage platform. DreamHost has been offering the service in beta since October of last year. READ MORE>>.