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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 toomuchtodo »

mkempe wrote: post #4

Key quote: "We are lowering S3 storage prices by 36% to 65%, effective April 1st, 2014." http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

Unless you're storing massive amounts of data, no point in using Glacier now, as it's still $0.01/GB (vs $0.03/GB for standard durability).

And wow. Hell of a price drop.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by thomaslangston »

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.

Re: Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by frade33 »

Much expected after the GDrive prices got slashed.

Currently I am only using S3 for hosting PDF or other big size files which are downloadable by the public, since the bandwidth is pay-as-go.

However for regular storage, Dropbox/GDrive are still the primary choice, due to the fact, the data sync across devices, speaking of sync, what is holding Amazon back from a similar app for S3?

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