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NickHope wrote on 9/1/2010, 9:28 PM
Yes Steve, I've been using it for about a year. I've been very happy with it, although I now generally embed most of my videos from YouTube instead since I earn more advertising revenue from them as a YouTube partner.

Here's an example of a video served using the Longtail player and Amazon Cloudfront.

I have cdn.amazon.com set up as an alias to make the URLs nicer.

I'm using the excellent and free Cloudberry Explorer for Amazon S3 to manage the content.

Besides videos, I have images, swf files etc. on Cloudfront so that they are accessed faster than off my website's server.
Chienworks wrote on 9/2/2010, 4:41 AM
Beware that bandwidth is expensive through amazon. We have a lot of database servers in the cloud that handle cpu intensive queries nicely without bogging down our own server. However, when we recently needed to transfer a 300GB image back into the office we found it was cheaper to buy a hard drive, ship it overnight to amazon, pay their techs to copy the image for us, and ship the drive back, than to pay for the data transfer rates.
Steve Mann wrote on 9/4/2010, 7:19 AM
Thanks for the feedback. I looked at their service but they have more options and fees than my bank, so it was difficult to guess what it would cost.

Steve