Notable Uses
Photo hosting service SmugMug has used S3 since April 2006. They experienced a number of initial outages and slowdowns, but after one year they described it as being "considerably more reliable than our own internal storage" and claimed to have saved almost $1 million in storage costs.
There are various User Mode File System (FUSE)-based file systems for Unix-like operating systems (Linux, etc.) that can be used to mount an S3 bucket as a file system. Note that as the semantics of the S3 file system are not that of a Posix file system, the file system may not behave entirely as expected.
Apache Hadoop file systems can be hosted on S3, as its requirements of a file system are met by S3. As a result, Hadoop can be used to run MapReduce algorithms on EC2 servers, reading data and writing results back to S3.
Dropbox, StoreGrid, SyncBlaze, Tahoe-LAFS-on-S3, Zmanda and Ubuntu One are some of the many online backup and synchronization services that use S3 as their storage and transfer facility.
Minecraft hosts game updates and player skins on the S3 servers.
Tumblr, Formspring and Posterous images are hosted on the S3 servers.
Alfresco (software) the OpenSource Enterprise Content Management provider are hosting data for the Alfresco in the cloud service on S3.
Garry's Mod's "Toybox" feature is hosted on the S3 servers.
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