MyBlogLog Uses Amazon Web Services for Image Hosting
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.
