by psionmark on October 11, 2008
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.
by psionmark on April 23, 2008
Impressively low as the data transfer cost already was for Amazon’s S3/EC2 service, they’ve announced that they’re lowering it even further.
I received an email today announcing new pricing structures:
Current data transfer price (through April 30, 2008)
$0.100 per GB - data transfer in
$0.180 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.160 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.130 per GB - data transfer out / month over 50 TB
New data transfer price (effective May 1, 2008)
$0.100 per GB - data transfer in
$0.170 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.130 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.110 per GB - next 100 TB / month data transfer out
$0.100 per GB - data transfer out / month over 150 TB
I use S3 for storing the images on my FlightSimX blog. It saves a good chunk of bandwidth, is extremely fast and the cost is stupidly low. I’d recommend it to anyone.
