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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 vidarh »

rjurney wrote: post #139
computer wrote: post #119

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If S3 storage pricing was the issue for this startup they could always have gone with their own dedicated servers for storage for a fraction of the cost. For that reason, I doubt a lower S3 cost would have prevented them from shutting down.

Fraction of the cost long-term. Not short term, where they found themselves.

Renting dedicated servers with lots of disk has typically been vastly cheaper than S3 "forever" on a monthly contract basis, so there are plenty of options before going the route of bare metal in your own rack.

But even renting space by the 1U and leasing servers directly adds surprisingly little overhead.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by judk »

beering wrote: post #127
yeukhon wrote: post #110

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Small yes. Large bill wasn't so easy. Once I had an excess $40 added to my bill after a network attack. I was able to down to $10 after a few emails back and forth. Another time I had something low like $10 and they credit me right away without problem. Depends on how large your bill...

You live in a very different world from me if a "large bill" is an extra $40. For even a small company like who I work for, any fluctuations in our AWS bill under $100 would probably go unnoticed. Our total infrastructure cost (of which AWS is a small part) is in 5 digits.

Surely your dev team laptops total 5 digits already.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by mb_72 »

IgorPartola wrote: post #123
VikingCoder wrote: post #87

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Google Drive would be $120 / year for your 500 GB.

Interesting. I will have to see how this will handle encryption and large files.

In my experience - and from what I've seen in my subsequent frustrated research - Google Drive struggles with large files. I had a 9Gb VM that I split into 2GB pieces, and I still couldn't get one piece uploaded in a 24-hour period. Also, there is no progress display and it seems that a simple 'pause' of the sync restarts the process.

The GD client / back-end and large-file handling seems to be a long way behind the alternatives, sadly.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by toomuchtodo »

vidarh wrote: post #151
rjurney wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fraction of the cost long-term. Not short term, where they found themselves.

Renting dedicated servers with lots of disk has typically been vastly cheaper than S3 "forever" on a monthly contract basis, so there are plenty of options before going the route of bare metal in your own rack. But even renting space by the 1U and leasing servers directly adds surprisingly little overhead.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/03/19/backblaze-storage-pod-4...

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by vidarh »

bdcravens wrote: post #70
chris_mahan wrote: post #53

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That is so wrong it's not funny. Call? Isn't our use of computers predicated on the notion that we don't want to do manual labor?

My main gig revolves around bill auditing. You'd be amazed at the number of Fortune 500's that are supposedly driven by technology that have very manual processes around billing.

I used to do a billing system that processed about $15 million a year. To my horror, I realized when I joined that all chargeback processing involved someone in accounting going through the huge envelopes of chargeback claims + photocopied statements that they received in order to determine what to challenge. The online payment processor they used at the time didn't have any option for presenting the documentation online....

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by toomuchtodo »

Rifu wrote: post #148
tedivm wrote: post #143

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Personally I would not use the Amazon CDN. It's not as cost effective as others, and CDN services are basically commodified at this point.

Would you happen to have recommendations for other CDN services?

Akamai on the high end, Fastly for a startup or mid-sized business.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by rsync »

IgorPartola wrote: post #147
rsync wrote: post #145

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You can back up your NAS to rsync.net.

I could but for $1800/year I could also build at least 8 redundant NAS boxes with 2TB storage and stick them at my friend's houses. I could also just pay $180/year for S3. Your offering is VERY expensive though I am sure quality is top notch.

FWIW, the HN new-customer discount brings that down to $1200/year.

Probably ... 2x the price of S3, given the cost of data transfer which, for us, is zero.

It may not be for you, but some folks find phone support, 7d+4w snapshots, straight-up, native unix interoperability and 2 free physical delivery events per year to be compelling.

Cheers!

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by teemo_cute »

mikeash wrote: post #90
JNox64 wrote: post #58

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I too, took some punishment for making a joke. HN is a dead serious place, I guess.

Jokes are welcome, but they have to actually be funny.

But jokes do have their place right? They brighten someones day, for example.

I propose someone makes a subsection of Hacker News dedicated solely to jokes or funny stuff.

Or someone create a new site... named.... Hacker-News-Chan?

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