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Amazon S3: Price reduction

I know a lot of you get your Amazon Web Services news from me, so I thought I’d better mention this one. It’s huge!! :)

Amazon announced S3 price reductions as you scale. For us, since we’re way beyond 500TB, this is huge. And for any of you who are still in their first tier, it’s something to look forward to. :)

DevPay also got a significant new release, pricing-wise, recently, so if you’re interested in that, better check it out.

Thanks Amazon!

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4 Responses to “Amazon S3: Price reduction”

  1. Kyle West Says:
    October 13th, 2008 at 8:19 pm

    just curious .. how far above 500 TB are you guys? no prob. if it’s secret.

  2. Bernd Eckenfels Says:
    October 14th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

    Just so that you do not need to calculate yourself: over 500TB is over $61k/month (old $77k/month). Impressive. Thats 18000 Smugmug Standard Users (excluding taxes and other expences of course).

  3. Brad Says:
    October 15th, 2008 at 8:58 am

    I am beyond disappointed at this “price drop.” S3 is now over two years old and their base storage price has not dropped at all. I knew this drop was coming and I was ready to commit to a complete move to them, but I was expecting a maximum price of .12 for byte 1. I buy my own stuff for under $.50/GB one-time cost. Sure, I have to buy up-front, but even with mirroring, lease costs and management I can kill Amazon’s cost and count on better future price drops.

  4. Steven Roussey Says:
    October 21st, 2008 at 5:49 pm

    What is your thinking behind not moving your databases to AWS?