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So is this a blatant dig at Amazon's Glacier? "Fast performance... unlike competitors" As they generally do tit for tat on price wars, it will be interesting to see what Amazon responds with.
Glacier is the other big offering from a comparable cloud vendor in this space, so, yeah. The performance claim is directed largely at Glacier, as is the consistent access one.
So how is this implemented? Spun-down disk drives?
4MB/s is only around 4% of the bandwidth of a modern 1TB hard disk.
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There it is. Still, someone like 'cperciva could pool a lot of their customers' data together and offer high speeds even for small amounts of data.
http://xkcd.com/1494/ The unusual thing about this market is that by constantly improving the price point of their product but keeping their profit margins the same, AWS has forced every competitor in it to actually compete at the limits of their capability - so any scheme like this that got any serious traction would presumably be self-undermining. The economists will have considered all of the unused provided capac…
The large cloud providers sell on brand recognition, convenience and trust, not cost. They may compete with each other on cost to try to cannibalise each others markets, but they're not even close to pushing the envelope on cost efficiency in terms of the prices they offer.
from the documentation: "You should expect 4 MB/s of throughput per TB of data stored as Nearline Storage. This throughput scales linearly with increased storage consumption."
So how is this implemented? Spun-down disk drives?
My guess would be disk drives that are otherwise used for I/O intensive purposes, and where there's tons of unused/wasted space. 4MB/s is only around 4% of the bandwidth of a modern 1TB hard disk.
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and then makes me enter a VAT number... well, I will stick with AWS and Azure, since neither of those "REQUIRE" a vat number or business status.
PS: i know a business name costs about EUR20 to setup, but the VAT requirement is the pain in the left one...
from the documentation: "You should expect 4 MB/s of throughput per TB of data stored as Nearline Storage. This throughput scales linearly with increased storage consumption."
Isn't the price a little high? $10/TB/mo is the same as Dropbox, and this has a lot fewer features than Dropbox.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://xkcd.com/1494/ The unusual thing about this market is that by constantly improving the price point of their product but keeping their profit margins the same, AWS has forced every competitor in it to actually compete at the limits of their capability - so any scheme like this that got any serious traction would presumably be self-undermining. The economists will have considered all of the unused provided capac…
I don't know why you think so. AWS is not very price competitive. I make good money consulting on setup of more cost-effective alternatives to things like S3. The large cloud providers sell on brand recognition, convenience and trust, not cost. They may compete with each other on cost to try to cannibalise each others markets, but they're not even close to pushing the envelope on cost efficiency in terms of the price…