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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 tiquorsj »

hrrsn wrote: post #165
hahahafail wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

very cool repository, found the S3 data here: https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence/blob/master/... So basically at their peak, they had ~174TB S3 and ~47TB S3 RRS. That month cost them ~$16.2k, whereas after April 1 they could have put everything in S3 for ~$6.7k. That's a big difference, but they were still getting taken to the cleaners over some other services like RDS.

Why wouldn't they put all of that in a Backblaze Storage Pod? 2 months of AWS costs could've built more than 2 pods and stored everything with plenty of space to spare.

Price out the backup solution for that back blaze. Then make the backblaze geograohiclly redundant. Then write the system to keep them in sync. Then add versioning. Then pay for someone to manage it. Now you are getting towards the real cost of that backblaze to replace S3.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by tiquorsj »

easy_rider wrote: post #168
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.

I accidentally setup EC2's in another Region (and effectively "forgot" about them. Woke up with a 1.2k invoice + $250 more in charges for March. Amazon voided all charges without question. Their level of customer support is off the charts. But AWS would never be my first pick to start up something. Your costs will be way way lower when going dedicated. Obviously you should be able to scale, but I think startups gener…

EC2 pricing is more in line with other vendors. S3 is silly cheap.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by antr »

cmelbye wrote: post #162
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.

Dropbox doesn't pay the rates you see on the S3 pricing page. They currently pay lower than $0.03/GB.

I hope we see a price reduction for the 100gb @ $10/month account, for something closer to $5/month

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by greghinch »

easy_rider wrote: post #168
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.

I accidentally setup EC2's in another Region (and effectively "forgot" about them. Woke up with a 1.2k invoice + $250 more in charges for March. Amazon voided all charges without question. Their level of customer support is off the charts. But AWS would never be my first pick to start up something. Your costs will be way way lower when going dedicated. Obviously you should be able to scale, but I think startups gener…

Amazon also has a startup program where you can get like $7k or similar free AWS credit when you register. They do some basic checks, but it's pretty easy to get IIRC.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by giovannibajo1 »

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?

We use cdn77 and are happy with the service. They're cheap and they properly route Google DNS users (lots of them), since they support edns-client-subnet.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by neya »

BHSPitMonkey wrote: post #129
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).

Thank you for the clarification, looks like I commented on the wrong thread xD

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by herokusaki »

tiquorsj wrote: post #171
hrrsn wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why wouldn't they put all of that in a Backblaze Storage Pod? 2 months of AWS costs could've built more than 2 pods and stored everything with plenty of space to spare.

Price out the backup solution for that back blaze. Then make the backblaze geograohiclly redundant. Then write the system to keep them in sync. Then add versioning. Then pay for someone to manage it. Now you are getting towards the real cost of that backblaze to replace S3.

>Then write the system to keep them in sync. Then add versioning.

Are there any ready-to-deploy solutions for this?

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by herokusaki »

antr wrote: post #173
cmelbye wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dropbox doesn't pay the rates you see on the S3 pricing page. They currently pay lower than $0.03/GB.

I hope we see a price reduction for the 100gb @ $10/month account, for something closer to $5/month

Is Dropbox not having a $5/month plan a decision based on storage pricing?

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by antr »

herokusaki wrote: post #178
antr wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope we see a price reduction for the 100gb @ $10/month account, for something closer to $5/month

Is Dropbox not having a $5/month plan a decision based on storage pricing?

A reduction in the cost of goods sold does incentivise businesses to apply price discrimination without a negative impact on margins - a $5/month service would target a big, untouched, monetisable market.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by eldavido »

marincounty wrote: post #142
baddox wrote: post #105

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> Do they terminate some of your instances (potentially losing production data!)? If you have opted in for the "don't let me spend more than $x," then yes.

I'd second that! It's not complicated, especially for smaller entities. "I'll use your services, but don't go over ths amount; without authorization." If my wiz, bang app, website has that much potential--I'll get the money to you. I don't want to wake up to a big bill. To be honest, if they were very clear about pricing, and stop/loss orders; I think more people would sign up. It's about honesty, and a minimizing th…

6 months is industry-standard quoting for auto insurance -- not sure why, but it is. What product are you talking about?
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