Can you open source the code? I can use it.
https://github.com/kevindavis/s3-pricing
note, it was largely adapted from the pricing page on database.com
A simplified S3 pricing page
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Re: A simplified S3 pricing page
#12It's not granular enough for small scale/personal use. If someone were considering using S3 for a small project, or even just personal backup, this wouldn't really help them. The sliders should offer some way to get more granularity. Maybe scale the sliders the higher they go, or have a separate option to select the scale you want to work on.
Good point - I thought about this a bit and figured I could take one of a couple of approaches 1) log scale (probably a bit confusing / harder to implement) 2) a switch between personal and business (could do similar switches for other settings like region thoughts?
How about if you could double click on the slider to enter your own exact value. Also maybe throw in a checkbox for reduced redundancy?
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#13Nice. Feature request: please make the scale logarithmic (at least as an option).
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#14let me know if folks have any problems / would like any additional features
Love the idea and implementation, thanks a lot for this!
Though more granularity, as it has been said, would be nice, this is good enough for me and lots of people as it is right now.
What I REALLY would like to see (and I know this is not really a feature request for this, but just an idea I'm throwing out there) is this made for other Amazon AWS services as well.
Common scenarios, like "I would like to run a wordpress site on an EC2 instance serving a couple thousand hits per month", or "I'd like to store a 1 TB backup of my personal computer on Glacier and retrieve it when my computer crashes (say in 1 year)".
The point is, like you said yourself, if you're spending a lot of money, you shouldn't trust anyone else, but having these "ballpark figures" would be really useful for people that are considering these services.
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#15Wow! S3 is really expensive.
Re: A simplified S3 pricing page
#16It's not granular enough for small scale/personal use. If someone were considering using S3 for a small project, or even just personal backup, this wouldn't really help them. The sliders should offer some way to get more granularity. Maybe scale the sliders the higher they go, or have a separate option to select the scale you want to work on.
Yeah. Especially for someone who hosts a static blog.
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#17Maybe you could add in price comparisons to Dropbox, since they are just an S3 reseller.
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#18let me know if folks have any problems / would like any additional features
Love the idea and implementation, thanks a lot for this! Though more granularity, as it has been said, would be nice, this is good enough for me and lots of people as it is right now. What I REALLY would like to see (and I know this is not really a feature request for this, but just an idea I'm throwing out there) is this made for other Amazon AWS services as well. Common scenarios, like "I would like to run a wordpr…
To that point, it's hard to get a handle on how many GET, LIST, POST, etc. operations one would routinely do in the course of a blog or something else. While that can get pretty complex (especially if you end up throwing varnish in to minimize calls to your datastore), a calculator including various rules of thumb would be great.
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#19"Amazon's pricing page was kind of.. ass."
Given Heroku's popularity and the simplicity of its sliders, why has Amazon not put in a few days to build this on S3? I'm asking genuinely as I'm wondering if it really is enterprisey oversight or it really gets them more signups or usage without providing this kind of tool.
As a historical sideline, Amazon is no stranger to sliders. Its diamond search (of all things) was one of the first uses of sliders afaik to narrow down a search, in the early days of Ajax (http://ajaxian.com/archives/ajax-showcase-amazoncom-diamond-... - mentioned in May, 2005)
Also surprising there's no affiliate programme for S3, coming from the mother of all affiliate programmes.
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#20let me know if folks have any problems / would like any additional features
I was looking at this for video hosting costs - any chance the bandwidth slider could go a bit (well, a lot) higher?