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Animoto, web app for creating videos out of photos and music has received funding from Amazon. The amount of money invested was not disclosed.
The service uses Amazon Web Services (S3 in particular) to scale its application which quickly gained tremendous popularity. For instance, the Facebook version of Animoto is one of the most popular applications on Facebook platform, with over 750,000 users. Animoto was doing so well that it became a poster child for AWS, and it has been featured by Amazon as an example of a successful service using S3.