Webcloud World

Animoto, a succesfull startup enabling people to create dynamic slideshows and spread them trough various social-networks, has managed to deal with its growing server instances thanks to Amazon Webservices : S3 and EC2. Thanks to Amazon, they managed to scale from the equivalent of 50 servers to 2,500 in only three days!

Here is the feedback from Brad Jefferson, the Co-Founder and CEO of Animoto:

“Before AWS, we simply could not have launched Animoto.com and our professional video rendering platform at our current scale without massive CapEx and a lot of VC funding. The viral spike in Animoto video creations we experienced this week would have been disastrous without AWS.”

You can read the full transcript of Jeff Bezos’ speach, the CEO of Amazon on Animoto’s blog