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<header> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="amazon-is-amazing-most-of-the-time.html"
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rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Amazon is Amazing... Most of the Time">Amazon is Amazing... Most of the Time</a></h1> </header>
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<abbr class="published" title="2009-07-15T00:51:00">
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Wed 15 July 2009
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<p>In <a href="./category/Code.html">Code</a>.
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<p><a href="#id1"><span class="problematic" id="id2">|</span></a>image|Again and again I'm really amazed at Amazon. I discovered
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<a class="reference external" href="http://aws.amazon.com/s3/">Amazon S3</a> a few months ago, and was
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really impressed with the service. For mere pennies a month, you
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can have literally an unlimited amount of "cloud" storage.
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Phenomenal. After using the service for a while, I realized that
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they allow you to name an S3 bucket a domain name, and if the DNS
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Zone File of that domain contains an A record that points to
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Amazon's AWS servers, your bucket will automatically be available
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at that domain. This is amazing.
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<em>[media.kennethreitz.com is actually an S3 Bucket]</em></p>
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<p class="system-message-title">System Message: WARNING/2 (<tt class="docutils"><string></tt>, line 8); <em><a href="#id2">backlink</a></em></p>
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Inline substitution_reference start-string without end-string.</div>
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<p>A few other services allow you to do this and I've never seen it go
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wrong: Amazon S3 and Cloud Front,
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<a class="reference external" href="http://posterous.com">Posterous</a>, <a class="reference external" href="http://tumblr.com">Tumblr</a>,
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and <a class="reference external" href="http://blogger.com">Blogger</a>, to name a few.
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<em>[http://posts.kennethreitz.com is a Posterous site].</em></p>
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<p>After being blown away by the offering of unlimited storage, I was
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introduced to unlimited computing power:
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<a class="reference external" href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/">Amazon EC2</a>. All I can say is about
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this is this is every Hacker's dream come true. I mean seriously. I
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can instantly command 500 Xeon-powered linux machines to do
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whatever I like for an hour, and then suddenly have them all
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disappear off the grid and it will cost me a total of about $10.
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Seriously. Wow.</p>
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All excuses are now gone. The possibilities are <strong>limitless</strong>. Why
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aren't more people taking advantage of this wonderful service?</blockquote>
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<p>I then was introduced to their Affiliate program. If you provide a
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link to an Amazon.com sales listing, and someone purchases
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something from your link, you will receive a percentage of that
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sale. Genius! Screw using Google Adwords, this is a great idea. I
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did a few tests on Twitter. I posted one link, and within about 15
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minutes, I had over 100 clicks to the Amazon listing.</p>
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<p>I'm pretty surprised at what i've read recently, however.
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Apparently Amazon doesn't want you to use their affiliate links on
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mobile devices? What a missed opportunity. I wonder why this is? It
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must be some legal issues... I mean, Amazon makes money from
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affiliate links - why would they want to limit them?</p>
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<p>Leave a comment if you have any thoughts on this.</p>
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