After traveling the world, fotopedia co-founder Jean-Marie Hullot wanted to share his photos with others. After not finding a service he wanted to use, he had an idea for a ‘wikipedia of photos’. Founded by a group of ex-Apple employees based in Paris, France, fotopedia.com is breathing new life into photos by building a photo encyclopedia that lets photographers and photo enthusiasts collaborate and share images with the public.
After the fotopedia prototype was built, the team decided to launch on AWS’s cloud computing platform. Olivier Gutknecht, Co-Founder and Director, explains, “We first chose Amazon S3 early in the development phase for our media storage needs. We evaluated other solutions and quickly concluded that Amazon S3 was fully aligned with our needs and avoided new development work while reducing administrative and maintenance time to a minimum. Switching our first implementation to Amazon S3 was done in less than a week. And when Amazon EC2 was introduced, we quickly switched from our previous dedicated hosting solution to the Amazon Cloud.”