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This is fantastic. Amazon is the leader, and having them drop prices is a boon to the market as a whole. Companies who resell or add services on top of Amazon's
by jnoller 16y ago
This is fantastic. Amazon is the leader, and having them drop prices is a boon to the market as a whole. Companies who resell or add services on top of Amazon's services see an immediate benefit, as do their customers. I can't imagine how much money this saves companies like DropBox who build on top of it [cperciva is right, it's exactly 15245/month, since they're in the 1PB+ range].
I'm definitely wondering if and when we'll see 10 cents/gb - prices like that (minus the data transfer charges - see: http://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/whats-the-cost-of-a-gb-in-the-cloud/ http://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/whats-the-cost-of-a-g...) put it within striking range of high availability spinning disk in your local data center.
Disclaimer: I work for a company building on top of/reselling S3 in addition to other providers.
- cperciva 16y agoI can't imagine how much money this saves companies like DropBox who build on top of it. Based on the (very safe, I think) assumption that DropBox uses at least 1 PB of S3 storage, it will save them exactly $15245 per month.
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- mortenjorck 16y agoOr $182,940 per year. Depending on benefits and payroll taxes, that's somewhere between one and two very qualified engineering hires right there, for free.
- bconway 16y agoWouldn't a company that is such a significant user (by volume) have already negotiated a rate of their own? It would seem silly to be in the 1+ PB range and paying the going market rate.
- cperciva 16y agoI would guess that the point of Amazon's pricing tiers is so they can say "look, you've already getting a discounted rate" and not waste time negotiating with each customer separately.
- jnoller 16y agoActually, I'm pretty sure they do offer custom pricing to some customers, but I've never heard any details.
- d2viant 16y agoI would guess they do to. Netflix recently moved to the AWS infrastructure for their streaming and it was recently revealed that Netflix accounts for 20 percent of all internet traffic during peak times. I highly doubt Amazon simply said "go read our webpage" in a situation like this.
- andrewvc 16y agoThey have to. I've never negotiated w/ amazon, but their list bandwidth prices were 3 - 4 times more expensive than what i got negotiating with CDNs and carriers directly. That's to say nothing about cogent, who will sell you bandwidth at $4/mbps, AWS's cheapest pricing (at 150tb/mo) still comes out to $28/mbps, which is a joke.
- todd3834 16y agoThis probably doesn't effect big accounts like that. Based on their pricing table anything over 4000 TB is the same, already discounted, price.