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Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by duskwuff »

daviding wrote: post #38
jpeg_hero wrote: post #33

nice to see that "GovCloud" is 4x more expensive http://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/pricing/s3/ the $12,000 hammer reinvented!!

While I don't know it's x4 worth it, I can personally testify to how expensive anything FIPS 140 is to get done.. "Because the AWS GovCloud (US) Region is physically and logically accessible by US persons only and also supports FIPS 140-2 compliant end points, customers can manage more heavily regulated data in AWS while remaining compliant with federal requirements." http://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/

Keep in mind that this means they're operating one or more facilities exclusively for GovCloud. Since these facilities are almost certainly smaller than the rest (and, as you mentioned, they're more work than normal), it only stands to reason that it'd be more expensive to use.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by derefr »

bowlofpetunias wrote: post #55
thomaslangston wrote: post #8

My concern is what it always been for AWS, no first party support for limiting my bill. The best effort from AWS is just an email notification when they "think" my bill is over a limit. If I can't limit my risk to a surprise bill of thousands of dollars after missing a midnight email, I still can't use their service at any usage based price other than free.

If you're able to set up a service that risks a high bill, but cannot set up something that turns an email into some other action (anything from a text message to automatically shutting down your service), I don't think the limitations of AWS are the problem... (Having said that, AWS could really do a lot better with it's notification targets than just email.)

Any service risks a high bill. Any object hosted on S3 could be the target of a DDoS attack, for example.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by paulrosenzweig »

sdesol wrote: post #39
mdasen wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to disagree, but what other options? Google and Rackspace charge the same. DreamObjects charges $0.05/GB in transfer, but still charges $0.05 for storage. Azure is still the same $0.12/GB. I don't disagree that $0.12/GB could be considered expensive, but S3's competitors seem to be charging the same.

I actually use DigitalOcean as a cheap download server for my product. $5 gets you 1TB, then its $0.02/GB

How much bandwidth are you using? I'd wonder if they throttle you at some point. I'm sure they're not expecting people to use that whole TB.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by notwedtm »

derefr wrote: post #72
bowlofpetunias wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're able to set up a service that risks a high bill, but cannot set up something that turns an email into some other action (anything from a text message to automatically shutting down your service), I don't think the limitations of AWS are the problem... (Having said that, AWS could really do a lot better with it's notification targets than just email.)

Any service risks a high bill. Any object hosted on S3 could be the target of a DDoS attack, for example.

Hence the reason why you should be signing your S3 URL's.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by theDoug »

seanmccann wrote: post #64
callmeed wrote: post #16

It would be interesting to go back through the Everpix post mortem docs[1] and see if a big price swing like this could have put them in the black (or close to it). [1] https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence

That's no different than startups of the past having to pay thousands to millions of dollars to setup servers. These days those same servers can be setup in minutes for a fraction of the cost. Timing is everything. Sometimes the current market pricing for a commodity is too expensive to make your business viable today but in the future that will not be the case. Just depends how long that will take.

Fully agree. Most of what makes any startup work in the first place is that time + money + technology have finally aligned for them to start their idea.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by dediserv »

copergi wrote: post #69
dediserv wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are lots of other options. While they may not all be "cloud" providers, there is a wealth of VPS and dedicated server providers in almost all countries you can name. I have no idea why you are picking on Hetzner in particular. They offer clearly defined bandwidth packages with their servers (20-50 TB) and charge for overages (0.2 cents per GB). Hetzner is perhaps not what you would call a premium provider, but…

>While they may not all be "cloud" providers Then they are not "other options", that's the point.

There most certainly are other cloud providers out there, but it would help if you defined what you are looking for instead of conflating issues.

Webhostingtalk is a good resource for the curious.

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