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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 IgorPartola »

sandstrom wrote: post #113
IgorPartola wrote: post #83

This almost brings it down to where I can start backing things up onto S3. Currently my home NAS houses just under 500 GB's of stuff. My requirements to back this up offsite would be (1) full encryption of each file and filename using a key only I hold and (2) reasonable per-month price to where I cannot justify just buying another box with a bunch of drives and sticking them at a friend's house. I believe I can solv…

I'd recommend Arq (a great backup product for OS X). It requires some technical chops to setup, but I doubt that would be a problem for you (or other people on HN). http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/

This seems to be for backing up workstations. I have that covered already with TimeMachine and Ubuntu's backup services to the NAS box. Now I just need to back up the NAS itself. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by IgorPartola »

rmcpherson wrote: post #86
IgorPartola wrote: post #83

This almost brings it down to where I can start backing things up onto S3. Currently my home NAS houses just under 500 GB's of stuff. My requirements to back this up offsite would be (1) full encryption of each file and filename using a key only I hold and (2) reasonable per-month price to where I cannot justify just buying another box with a bunch of drives and sticking them at a friend's house. I believe I can solv…

Check out CamliStore at http://camlistore.org/ . It's far more than backup, but it accomplishes that as well and supports S3 as well as Google Cloud Storage.

Very interesting. I will check it out further, thanks.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by IgorPartola »

VikingCoder wrote: post #87
IgorPartola wrote: post #83

This almost brings it down to where I can start backing things up onto S3. Currently my home NAS houses just under 500 GB's of stuff. My requirements to back this up offsite would be (1) full encryption of each file and filename using a key only I hold and (2) reasonable per-month price to where I cannot justify just buying another box with a bunch of drives and sticking them at a friend's house. I believe I can solv…

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

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

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by IgorPartola »

maximilian wrote: post #84
IgorPartola wrote: post #83

This almost brings it down to where I can start backing things up onto S3. Currently my home NAS houses just under 500 GB's of stuff. My requirements to back this up offsite would be (1) full encryption of each file and filename using a key only I hold and (2) reasonable per-month price to where I cannot justify just buying another box with a bunch of drives and sticking them at a friend's house. I believe I can solv…

Check out git-annex (and the corresponding assistant). I haven't used it yet, but it supposedly supports S3 and glacier, and hard drives and will tell you where each file is backed up.

Interesting option. I might use this inside the LAN to manipulate the files on the NAS. The current setup is much simpler though: files that live in ZFS and incremental backups every day and every week.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by Matsta »

damon_c wrote: post #7

This must be an incredible benefit to companies like Imgur or Dropbox where a significant portion of their costs must be S3 storage.

I remember reading a while ago that Imgur uses Edgecast as their CDN and not Cloudfront. See: http://readystate4.com/2012/08/14/great-post-on-imgurs-stack...

My guess is that they are only using AWS for serving the site and handling the uploads, resizing etc. and they are using another provider for the storage of the images (or they are just directly hosting everything with Edgecast and not using them in Pull mode).

Like people have mentioned above, you can get a bunch of dedicated servers with heaps of storage for a fraction of the price of S3. You loose the flexibility and instant scaling, but the fact is these servers would be used more of a backup and would only be hit by Edgecast to upload them to the CDN.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by neya »

Is it reasonable to expect Paas service providers like Heroku and Engineyard also to cut their prices, or is it asking for too much? On one end, it seems logical to me because their services are built on top of AWS for the most part, on the other, I am not sure if this might happen since their selling point is not the Infrastructure underneath, but rather the convenience and ease of getting something up and running. I guess we'll just have to wait and watch.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by beering »

yeukhon wrote: post #110
balls187 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While not the best solution, you can call Amazon, speak to someone to have your "surprise" bill mitigated. This is 1st hand information from a AWS Rep I once dated.

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.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

neya wrote: post #126

Is it reasonable to expect Paas service providers like Heroku and Engineyard also to cut their prices, or is it asking for too much? On one end, it seems logical to me because their services are built on top of AWS for the most part, on the other, I am not sure if this might happen since their selling point is not the Infrastructure underneath, but rather the convenience and ease of getting something up and running.…

The linked page is only describing a price change in S3, not all AWS services across the board (most of what you're doing with Heroku would be incurring EC2 costs).
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