Ultimately the concept is a fairly simple, but very essential, one which looks set to greatly improve the data migration, data backup, and disaster recovery potential offered by AWS and importantly – to do so at a cost which represents good scalable value regard less of the size of business (or more accurately, quantity of data) in question. For example users with a T1 connection would find the Import/Export service cost effective when transferring 100Gb or more, while for a T3 the tipping point is at 2Tb or more, and so on.

With EtonDIGITAL recently announced as one the inaugural members of the AWS solution providers, we are delighted to see the addition and expansion of this service, and look forward to working with it in the future. Nice work once again from the AWS team!

Dejan Levi

The goal of the AWS Service providers program is to nurture a growing community of independent companies offering business solutions based on AWS. The database of members (which includes ED) provides clients seeking solutions with a range of reliable and experienced developers, all endorsed by AWS.

Recently EtonDigital has seen the launch of a number of high-profile projects constructed using AWS tools, such as StoryVault (which has featured across national press), StudentBOX, Eezeer, Rokpool, and AnaIvanovic.com it is work such as this that is helping to build our reputation as a highly-regarded partner of AWS and leading solution provider.

We’d like to say a massive thankyou to all the EtonDIGITAL staff, those over at AWS, and, of course, our clients – who’ve all worked hard to make this happen. For more info on the AWS solution providers program visit the AWS main page, where you can also find a comprehensive list of the inaugural founding members.

Dejan Levi

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AWS Case Study: Eton Digital and StudentBox (This link takes you to Amazon website)

What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

AWS provides a fantastically flexible solution for both start ups and existing web based businesses. AWS provides a web services platform that is entirely based in the Cloud, and can be tailored entirely to your technical needs.

Since you only pay for what you use, it offers a low cost entry option for Start-up businesses, and a instantly scalable option for more established online players. Since there are no ‘flat fees’ or ‘up-front’ costs, this reduces the normal and sometimes costly barriers to getting your site up and running. Additionally, because the charging models are pay per use, your costs rise only with your success! Ask for a Quote

What We Do For You

Here at EtonDIGITAL we have been integrating our Clients sites into AWS for some time now, and have gained considerable experience in doing so.

Since AWS is such a flexible platform, it comes as a ‘blank canvass’, and as a result offers complete configuration per Account. At EtonDIGITAL we are recognised as a preferred partner by Amazon for our experience and success in launching sites within the AWS environment.

So for our Clients, EtonDIGITAL combine cutting edge design and development with the ability to successfully launch your website into this un-paralleled service from Amazon. In short, we provide the perfect end to end solution for our Clients.

It is worth noting that you don’t have to be a web development client to take advantageous of our AWS Integration Service. We now offer Integration to AWS as a standalone service, so if you have an existing website, or about to launch one, and want to take advantage of this cost effective, durable and totally flexible hosting solution, we can help you.

Why We Help Our Clients Use Amazon Web Services

We have experienced a number of key benefits for our Clients when deploying on Amazon Web Services:

Lower Cost.
Since you only pay for what you consume as you consume it is a far more cost effective solution. If for example you are a Start-Up Social Network, AWS provides the best solution as your costs only rise if your usage does, and therefore as your revenue does. You don’t need to pay upfront for heavy dedicated servers that cost exactly the same for 1 or 1000 users, but you get all the advantages of the latest technology and service from the World’s most capable e-commerce Business.

Totally Assured
Coming from the largest e-commerce Group in the world, AWS is battled hardened and totally reliable. With a distributed cloud, high end security and superb resilience AWS is a capable and scalable solution.

Totally Flexible
AWS comes with the ability for you to configure the combination of technology, platform and operating system that you need. This can vary from Ruby on Rails, Symfony, PHP and the rest, but if freedom is not what you need then AWS comes with a set of pre-defined services for speed to market.

Note:
InfoWorld Cloud vs Cloud review: It’s hard to go into enough detail about all of the offerings described here, but Amazon is the most difficult because it has the most extensive solutions. Amazon is thoroughly committed to the cloud paradigm, rethinking how we design these systems and producing some innovative tools….

Amazon EC2 available in Europe; Developers and businesses can now run their Amazon EC2 instances in the EU to help achieve lower latency, operate closer to other resources like Amazon S3 in the EU, and meet EU data storage requirements when required. The new European Region for Amazon EC2 contains two Availability Zones enabling you to easily and cost effectively run fault-tolerant applications with the same scalability, reliability and cost efficiency achieved with Amazon EC2 in the US. http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2008/12/10/amazon-ec2-crosses-the-atlantic/

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