[aklug] Re: Amazon is slashing prices

From: <bryanm@acsalaska.net>
Date: Wed Dec 09 2009 - 22:51:10 AKST

On Tue, December 8, 2009 9:00 am, damien@linuxninjas.tv wrote:
> Amazon is slashing prices on data storage in the cloud.
>
> "We're excited to inform you of some price changes for Amazon S3 and Amazon
> EC2, as well as a special data transfer promotion that will run until June 30,
> 2010.
> Amazon S3 Storage Pricing Tiers As Amazon S3 has grown, so has the number of
> customers storing large amounts of data in the service. To assist these
> customers, we are reducing the price of our 500 TB tier. We are also
> introducing new pricing tiers in all Amazon S3 Regions at the 1 PB and 5 PB
> levels. These changes reduce storage costs for multi-petabyte customers by
> more than 15%, and reduce the price of our highest tier by more than 50% in
> the US Standard and EU (Ireland) Regions."

Good news for those of us with a petabyte sitting around that we
don't know what to do with.

Seriously, though, how long does it take to upload that much data
over the Internet? And how long does it take to download it again
when you really need it?

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Bryan Medsker
bryanm@acsalaska.net
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