Amazon have revised the pricing structure on their S3 storage product.
I use S3 extensively for my main blog - FlightSimX - for storing images. It’s very cost effective for me and has the added bonus of reducing the server load, which is especially important when I get busy days after a popular post on the site.
New Pricing
Current storage price (through Oct 31, 2008)
US: $0.150 per GB
EU: $0.180 per GB
New storage price (effective Nov 1, 2008)
US
$0.150 First 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.140 Next 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.130 Next 400 TB / month of storage used
$0.120 Storage used / month over 500 TB
EU
$0.180 First 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.170 Next 50 TB / month of storage used
$0.160 Next 400 TB / month of storage used
$0.150 Storage used / month over 500 TB
As you can see, the more you use, the cheaper it gets. I don’t think I’ll ever be getting past the first tier, but it still remains a good solution for me.
