Amazon A3

Karan Parkin, Graphix Gal at Graphix for Change, is a web designer and graphic artist. Karan has owned and managed parkinDESIGN, now Graphix For Change, since it was established in 1998. With formal training in fine art and graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design, she combines graphic design concepts with practical development of marketing tools that meet the needs and accomplish the goals of her clients. Karan considers each client relationship a partnership – an opportunity to bring her creative skills to work in meeting the client's needs. Her creative approach to graphic problem solving leads to compelling design solutions.

I want to tell you about this great service that Amazon provides. It's called Amazon A3 and stands for Amazon Simple Storage System. Here's what they say about it:

"Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web."

This is a great place to back up your website "in the cloud" for the cheapest price there is, especially for large amounts of data. Infact, for the first year, they will give you a whole lot for nothing. 

As part of the AWS Free Usage Tier, you can get started with Amazon S3 for free. Upon sign-up, new AWS customers receive 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage, 20,000 Get Requests, 2,000 Put Requests, and 15GB of data transfer out each month for one year." 

At Graphix for Change we can use this to back up your Joomla website in the cloud, if we install Akeeba Backup component for Joomla.