MyBlogLog Uses Amazon Web Services for Image Hosting

January 30th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 5 Comments

Even after the Yahoo acquisition of MyBlogLog there are still some connections between the company and Amazon.com.

Has anyone else noticed that when MyBlogLog loads they serve pixels from AmazonAWS.com?

That is the domain and server from Amazon Web Services and MyBlogLog is hosting its faceroll images and user picture galleries on Amazon’s servers.

Example (you can change the four digit number in URL to find random pics, like this one) : http://s3.amazonaws.com/mbl_pic/2543.jpg

It is quite interesting after the Flickr integration of photos into MyBlogLog that Yahoo is still using Amazon to host new images and wonder when Yahoo will be transitioning the image hosting from Amazon’s servers over to their own.

I had always found it a bit odd that the amazonaws.com domain was being pinged to serve something on my browser when loading a site which uses MyBlogLog. It would be interesting to find out what other AmazonAWS services MyBlogLog is also using and whether Amazon & Alexa had also tried to acquire their client before Yahoo.

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Comments

5 responses so far ↓

Sushubh on Jan 30, 2007 at 4:32 pm

umm. bad idea to post some random image on this website :P

just the hint would have worked!
Andy Beal on Jan 30, 2007 at 6:36 pm

I noticed that when the widget started loading slowly. I suspected it was MBL, but good work in uncovering it.
Mike on Jan 31, 2007 at 2:21 pm

Interesting Loren,
btw, this url provides a much better pic than the one you chose, imo.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/mbl_pic/2342.jpg
Joey on Jan 31, 2007 at 4:50 pm

Here’s an easy way to looks through all those pix:

http://nakedbrowser.com/?x=&u=http://s3.amazonaws.com/mbl_pic/6.jpg
Scott Rafer on Jan 31, 2007 at 10:21 pm

MyBlogLog has used Amazon S3 for all its images from the beginning. Mashery, a company that I co-founded in April has its entire enterprise on Amazon S3 and EC2. It’s exactly the way to run a startup. Investing in over-capacity creates a capital inefficiencies that can even kill good startups.

We’re in the process of transitioning MyBlogLog onto Yahoo servers. That will include the images, no matter how big a fan we are of Amazon’s services.

On the latency, S3 had some hickups in November and early December, but the recent troubles have been ours internally. We are getting better each day, but it’s not instantaneous unfortunately.