We are pleased to announce that MyArea Network, the network of over 75 local area websites based in Tampa, Florida, has now migrated it's business to the clouds with Amazon Web Services. Cloud Hosting has been a major trend for businesses looking for efficient and cost effective ways to run their technology, everything from website hosting, email service, CRM, marketing and more. There are a variety of Cloud providers with some of the biggest names being Amazon, Google and Salesforce. Earlier this year, MyArea Network chose Google Apps for it's email infrastructure and productivity software which provides collaboration tools among the company. During the Thanksgiving holiday we began making the shift to move our websites from iNetservices Dedicated Server to the cloud based Amazon Web Services. The move only took about 3 days with very little down time being experienced. The Cloud hosting with Amazon is not only a cost savings but allows MyArea Network to more easily scale for growth and peak utilization. Being able to add server and database instances on the fly, load balance between various instances and fail over when a system crashes will provide a much better experience for the end users with little down time and faster page loading. Earlier this week there was an announcement of the New Photo Gallery which was made in part because of the shift to Cloud Hosting as all the photos are now being hosted and served through Amazon's S3 Cloud Computing Storage system. Stay tuned for more feature launches and enhancements as the staff is working diligently to improve user experience and provide more tools for both businesses and individual members. For more details on Amazon Web Services visit aws.amazon.com. Feel free to leave us feedback and suggestions in the comments below.