[dhotson]

Just curious, do you keep your own backups as well? Do you have any contingency plans for if Amazon's services go down?

I'm not trying to be cynical, but I'd hate to be in the position where Amazon has your business by the balls if something goes wrong. How do you guys deal with this?

[socmoth]

amazon did go down once. smugmug has a blog post about it and what they did. go google it. the entire blog is amazing and informative and i highly recommend it.

i'd link you, but i'm lazy

[songism]

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/02/15/s3-outage-we-werent-...

or maybe this: http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/01/30/amazon-s3-outages-sl...