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Celebrating 3 Years of Amazon S3 with 3 Months of Transfer-In for 3 Cents/GB

29 points by peter123 18y ago

vaksel 18y ago
We’ll be offering “data transfer in” to Amazon S3 for only $0.03 per GB (vs. the standard $0.10) for 3 months, April through June. I wonder if its $.03 for everyone, or just for those that transfer more than 150TB/mo(@.1/gb).
- atarashi 18y ago
  It applies to everyone. You're thinking of transfer out, which begins at $0.17/GB and works its way down to $0.10/GB, as you spend more. For transfer in, the standard price of $0.10/GB applies from the very beginning.
siverson914 18y ago
Diomede Storage is also matching this for the next three months: http://www.diomedestorage.com/b http://www.diomedestorage.com/b password: hackern (Diomede standard upload bandwidth price is $.08/GB [20% less than Amazon to start])
goodkarma 18y ago
I hope this isn't an April Fool's joke!
- chaosmachine 18y ago
  "Just kidding, we're not really lowering our prices! Joke's on you, customers! Haha!"
- goodkarma 18y ago
  LOL you folks crack me up, downmodding me for that!
patrickg-zill 18y ago
Since the gigabit+ links they are paying for are symmetric, that is, they can move the same amount of data in both directions, I will make the assumption that Amazon's "outbound" traffic is less than their "inbound" and thus, an increase of inbound up to a certain point costs them nothing. Also, transfer-in means that in order to get any use out of it, you now have to transfer-out (another charge). Not being critical, just pointing out that this is a bit of a "give the razor for free, sell the razor blades" strategy.
- bdr 18y ago
  Not really, since the blades are still cheap.
ryanwaggoner 18y ago
This could be a significant boost to backup companies that use S3, as they probably have way more transfer in than out.
tdavis 18y ago
Man, S3 is 3 years old already? I'm not sure whether to feel old or wonder where those years went. Feels like they launched just last year.
cloudberryman01 18y ago
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29 points by peter123 18y ago

We’ll be offering “data transfer in” to Amazon S3 for only $0.03 per GB (vs. the standard $0.10) for 3 months, April through June. I wonder if its $.03 for everyone, or just for those that transfer more than 150TB/mo(@.1/gb).

atarashi 18y ago
It applies to everyone. You're thinking of transfer out, which begins at $0.17/GB and works its way down to $0.10/GB, as you spend more. For transfer in, the standard price of $0.10/GB applies from the very beginning.

siverson914 18y ago

Diomede Storage is also matching this for the next three months: http://www.diomedestorage.com/b http://www.diomedestorage.com/b password: hackern (Diomede standard upload bandwidth price is $.08/GB [20% less than Amazon to start])

goodkarma 18y ago

I hope this isn't an April Fool's joke!

chaosmachine 18y ago
"Just kidding, we're not really lowering our prices! Joke's on you, customers! Haha!"
goodkarma 18y ago
LOL you folks crack me up, downmodding me for that!

patrickg-zill 18y ago

Since the gigabit+ links they are paying for are symmetric, that is, they can move the same amount of data in both directions, I will make the assumption that Amazon's "outbound" traffic is less than their "inbound" and thus, an increase of inbound up to a certain point costs them nothing. Also, transfer-in means that in order to get any use out of it, you now have to transfer-out (another charge). Not being critical, just pointing out that this is a bit of a "give the razor for free, sell the razor blades" strategy.

bdr 18y ago
Not really, since the blades are still cheap.

ryanwaggoner 18y ago

This could be a significant boost to backup companies that use S3, as they probably have way more transfer in than out.

tdavis 18y ago

Man, S3 is 3 years old already? I'm not sure whether to feel old or wonder where those years went. Feels like they launched just last year.

cloudberryman01 18y ago

We want to congratulate Amazon and almost half million Amazon S3 users with 3 year anniversary this great service and we are announcing CloudBerry Explorer freeware release 1.4. CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a freeware tool that makes managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront Services easier. New features in this release: 1. Generate BiTorrent URLs 2. Generate short URLs using http://chilp.it http://chilp.it 3. All tasks run in background including ACL 4. Hide to tray 5. Bug fixes Please visit our website and download the new version http://cloudberrylab.com http://cloudberrylab.com