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AWS Lightsail now offers S3 object storage with reduced egress fees: 250 GB storage, 500 GB transfer, 5$/month. With standard S3, that egress traffic would cos
by aborsy 5y ago
AWS Lightsail now offers S3 object storage with reduced egress fees: 250 GB storage, 500 GB transfer, 5$/month.
With standard S3, that egress traffic would cost 45$ -50$.
Sounds like AWS is competing with itself.
- judge2020 5y agoSounds like they want to capture the market standalone VPS providers have eaten, and I don't blame them. Not acquiring users for small-scale usage means they're less likely to consider you for large-scale usage. This is a large part of Cloudflare's success - the free tier is marketing for their Enterprise tier, and it really works.
- aborsy 5y agoIndeed, it uses pricing of the providers such as DigitalOcean, that charge $5 for 250GB storage and 1TB transfer.
- 57844743385 5y agoAmazon does not allow you to use lightsail as a back door for sneaking your data out at low cost.