The
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The UPA supports those
who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out
to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience. Members
come from across the broad family of disciplines that create the user experience.
We invite you to network in our community. More
about UPA…

he Art and Science of Compelling Copy

Copywriting is the process of writing words that promote a person, business, opinion, or idea, with the ultimate intention of having the reader take some form of action. Even if it’s a link, bookmark, or a vote at Digg that leads to the traffic you need.

In other words, copywriting is all about people responding the way you want them to.

If you think that sounds a bit shady, relax. We all use persuasion techniques each and every day, whether we are conscious of it or not. With our spouses, kids, parents, bosses, vendors, employees and customers, we try to do and say things that move them in the direction we desire.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)




Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.




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. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.






Amazon S3 Functionality




Amazon S3 is intentionally built with a minimal feature set.







• Write, read, and delete objects containing from 1 byte to 5 gigabytes of data each. The number of objects you can store is unlimited.
  
• Each object is stored and retrieved via a unique, developer-assigned key.
  
• Authentication mechanisms are provided to ensure that data is kept secure from unauthorized access. Objects can be made private or public, and rights can be granted to specific users.
  
• Uses standards-based REST and SOAP interfaces designed to work with any Internet-development toolkit.
  
• Built to be flexible so that protocol or functional layers can easily be added.  Default download protocol is HTTP.  A BitTorrent(TM) protocol interface is provided to lower costs for high-scale distribution.  Additional interfaces will be added in the future. 



Pricing





• Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee, and no start-up cost.
  
• $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used.
  
• $0.20 per GB of data transferred.