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Amazon charges $0.1 for 1GB storage. suppose one active user uploads 5 pictures each day on average and each picture takes up 1mb. If you have 500k active users
by stewie2 14y ago
Amazon charges $0.1 for 1GB storage. suppose one active user uploads 5 pictures each day on average and each picture takes up 1mb. If you have 500k active users, they can use up 500k x 5mb = 2500GB = $250.
$250 x 30 = $7500
because this cost is accumulative, within a year, the monthly bill will be as high as $75000. This is just the data storage. There are extra fees for database access, bandwidth ...
- mbenjaminsmith 14y ago"The photos themselves go straight to Amazon S3, which currently stores several terabytes of photo data for us." http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/what-powers-instagram-hundreds-of-instances-dozens-of http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/wha... That was 7 months ago, so let's say 5TB today. Plugging that into the calculator for AWS says Instagram pays a whopping $500 for photo storage each month. I don't want to take the time to do it myself but here http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/9/the-instagram-architecture-facebook-bought-for-a-cool-billio.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/9/the-instagram-archi... someone punches (in the comments) all of their numbers into the AWS calculator. He comes up with 12k per month based on what they've said they're running.
- statictype 14y agoYes, this is true if each user uploads 5 photos every day. In reality, 90% of the users may upload a single photo every week.