We Use Amazon Secure Servers

In order to protect your data, Amazon Secure Servers are used to store your Know Your Stuff™—Home Inventory data. In doing so, we are able to provide you with the following feature set:

• Scalable- Amazon S3 can scale in terms of storage, request rate, and users to support an unlimited number of web—scale applications. It uses scale as an advantage: Adding nodes to the system increases, not decreases, its availability, speed, throughput, capacity, and robustness.
• Reliable- Store data durably, with 99.99% availability. There can be no single points of failure. All failures must be tolerated or repaired by the system without any downtime.
• Fast- Amazon S3 must be fast enough to support high—performance applications. Server—side latency must be insignificant relative to Internet latency. Any performance bottlenecks can be fixed by simply adding nodes to the system.

In addition, you will benefit from the following design principles.

• Decentralization
• Asynchrony
• Autonomy
• Local responsibility
• Controlled concurrency
• Failure tolerant
• Controlled parallelism
• Decompose into small well-understood building blocks
• Symmetry
• Simplicity