Application HostingAbaca
Abaca, a spam blocking application, chooses Amazon EC2 as a low-cost computing alternative after they surpass their estimated growth rate. AdaptiveBlue (New)
Glue uses Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon S3 and EC2 to power their browser add-on which lets users share feedback with their friends on things found on Amazon.com, MTV, Wikipedia, and other websites. Autodesk Seek
Autodesk, Inc. selects Amazon Web Services as the infrastructure upon which to build its new software-as-a-service solution, Autodesk Seek. DigitalChalk
DigitalChalk powers its easy-to-use application for creating, delivering, and managing online training videos using Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and Amazon SQS. DreamFactory
DreamFactory selects Amazon Web Services as a cost-effective platform which meets technical and business requirements for delivering products in the cloud. HostedFTP
HostedFTP.com, a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) replacement solution for businesses, hosts their file sharing system on Amazon S3 and EC2. LiveLeader
LiveLeader estimates that they’ve saved nearly $200,000 by deploying their live chat tool for business on Amazon Web Services. Mailtrust
Mailtrust, who hosts email accounts for more than 100,000 businesses worldwide, uses Amazon S3 for their backup solution, cutting costs by more than 75%. Morph
Built from the ground up using Amazon Web Services, Morph Labs markets a “full service” deployment, delivery and management system for web applications. Napera (New)
Napera built their network security management layer on top of Amazon EC2, allowing them to go to market in under nine months. PostRank (New)
As a young, bootstrapped company, the founders of PostRank architected their new service to take advantage of the AWS cloud computing platform. “Without EC2, the project would have been impossible.” rPath
rPath saves $80,000 by migrating 7,000 software appliance images from rBuilder Online to Amazon S3. Smartsheet
To accommodate their growing business, Smartsheet—a web-based solution for managing tasks, projects and processes—turns to Amazon S3 for document storage. Techout.com
Amazon EC2 allows Techout to horizontally scale virtual monitoring instances with speed and at low cost whenever and wherever they’re needed around the world. Unfuddle (New)
Unfuddle is now using Amazon EC2 and S3 for virtually 100% of its infrastructure, including web and database servers. Unfuddle makes extensive use of EBS volumes and snapshots which has completely transformed their backup process. Xignite (New)
Xignite employs Amazon EC2 and S3 to deliver financial market data to enterprise applications, portals, and websites for clients such as Forbes, Citi, ING, kaChing, and Starbucks. Wowza (New)
Wowza teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer Wowza Media Server Pro on Amazon EC2 as self-managed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
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Backup and Storage37signals
The team at 37signals saves significant time and money by selecting Amazon S3 to maintain and backup their 1 terabyte file server. Altexa
To support their growing business, Altexa chooses Amazon S3 to replace an increasingly expensive and unreliable in-house storage system. BeInSync
BeInSync incorporates an integrated backup service into their existing suite of services by leveraging Amazon S3 instead of building their own storage infrastructure. ElephantDrive
ElephantDrive turns to Amazon S3 to store client data, expanding their total amount of storage by nearly 20 percent each week while avoiding increased capital expenses. Jungle Disk
Jungle Disk develops and launches a simple, pay-as-you-go online data backup service in less than 30 days using Amazon S3. MediaSilo
MediaSilo integrates Amazon S3 to offer readily expandable storage to its subscribers at a much lower price. MyOwnDB
MyOwnDB uses Amazon S3 to increase capacity and deliver an enhanced Web database experience within two months—without any upfront costs. Sonian
Sonian discovers that Amazon Web Services delivers the services, price points, and sustained-business viability required to build a robust enterprise archive infrastructure. Zmanda
Zmanda delivers an enterprise-grade backup service featuring an easy-to-use sign up and payment process using Amazon S3 and Amazon DevPay.
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Content DeliveryAF83
Tasked with streaming a Madonna concert with just a few weeks to prepare, AF83 used Amazon S3 to quickly build a static content delivery solution to complement the live streaming experience. July Systems
In order to support their large media, sports, business, and entertainment clients, and deliver real-time content, July Systems migrated to AWS. Now, all their systems run on Amazon EC2.
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E-CommerceAdBrite
AdBrite uses Amazon Web Services to manage online ad sales, scheduling, and billing—providing advertisers with website data they need to make smart buying decisions. Amazon Products Feed (MrRat)
Steven Barnes, aka MrRat, offers a free Perl script to help people with limited programming experience build custom online stores featuring Amazon.com products. Associate-O-Matic
The Amazon Associates Web Service helps Associate-O-Matic empower their customers to build custom, online storefronts—without writing a single line of code. Giveness
Giveness uses Amazon Associates Web Service to enable consumers to support their favorite non-profit organizations while they shop. GMP Services
Using Amazon Associates Web Service, GMP Services can set up and deploy e-commerce solutions for clients in less than one hour. Groupee
Groupee uses Amazon Associates Web Service to feature relevant products—such as books, CDs, and DVDs—on their social network and share revenue on product sales. Inside
Inside uses the Amazon Associates Web Service within their instant messaging product, Inside Messenger, so users can search for and buy products on Amazon.com. Net Applications
Net Applications gains a competitive edge over other Web analytics solutions by using Alexa Web Information Service to deliver in-depth Web traffic information. The Talk Market
The Talk Market uses Amazon Flexible Payments Service to power their credit card processing pipeline. Zoomii
Zoomii pulls book data from Amazon Associates Web Service to create a highly visual, interactive online bookstore powered by Amazon S3 and EC2.
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High Performance ComputingHarvard Medical School
Harvard’s Laboratory for Personalized Medicine (LPM) uses customized Oracle AMIs on Amazon EC2 to run genetic testing models and simulations. Pathwork Diagnostics (New)
Pathwork Diagnostics, a molecular diagnostics company, uses Amazon EC2 and UniCloud to run complex algorithms to aid in the identification and diagnosis of cancer tumors. Washington Post
The Washington Post uses Amazon EC2 to turn Hillary Clinton’s White House schedule—17,481 non-searchable PDF pages—into a searchable database within 24 hours.
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Media HostingGigaVox Media
GigaVox uses Amazon Web Services to build and maintain a redundant, scalable, and highly available infrastructure that cost less than $100 to launch. Indianapolis 500
Indy500.com stores more than 100,000 images using Amazon S3, and they use Amazon EC2 to host and stream live motor sport races to over 3.1 million visitors. Jamglue
Jamglue succeeds in going to market quickly and scaling to meet demand by using Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 as their infrastructure solution. SmugMug
Online photo sharing company SmugMug estimates it has saved $500,000 in storage expenditures and cut its disk storage array costs in half by using Amazon S3.
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On-Demand WorkforceChannel Intelligence
Using Amazon Mechanical Turk, Channel Intelligence was able to leverage human intelligence around the globe and decrease task-specific costs by 85%. CastingWords
CastingWords provides low-cost, high-quality podcast transcription services utilizing Amazon Mechanical Turk. Hit-Builder
Hit-Builder makes it possible to request work from Amazon Mechanical Turk without understanding Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) or writing code. Knewton (New)
Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton, shares how the company uses Mechanical Turk in innovative ways to aid in everything from performance testing to building a lead database.
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Search EnginesAlexa
Alexa delivers high-volume search and information services, storing over 12 million objects in Amazon SimpleDB and performing over 5 million queries daily. Hanzo
Hanzo turns to Amazon Web Services to achieve their goal of indexing the World Wide Web and storing it in a browsable and searchable archive. MiraiBio (New)
MiraiBio uses Amazon EC2 uses to run multiple algorithms against a given DNA sequence in their DNASIS SmartNote notebook and display relevant articles to biologists.
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Web HostingDigitaria
Digitaria uses Amazon EC2 to create cost-effective virtual hosting environments for their client’s websites, including Hasbro, BravoTV/NBC Universal, KPBS, and others. G.ho.st
G.ho.st, an innovative web operating system company, uses Amazon Web Services to maintain a low friction, cost-effective solution that scales with their business. Gumiyo
Online mobile commerce provider Gumiyo runs a complete production environment with Amazon Web Services, including web servers, database servers, and load balancers. ShareThis
Cost-effectiveness, responsiveness, and reliability are the reasons ShareThis uses Amazon Web Services to power their content-sharing application. Zoopla (New)
In the first 12 months since launch, Zoopla estimates it has saved at least £200,000 in the areas of data-centre costs, server cap-ex, server upgrade/maintenance costs, sys admin salaries, network equipment, etc.