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This must be an incredible benefit to companies like Imgur or Dropbox where a significant portion of their costs must be S3 storage.
by damon_c 13y ago
This must be an incredible benefit to companies like Imgur or Dropbox where a significant portion of their costs must be S3 storage.
- j_s 13y agoI wonder if any company using that much S3 space wouldn't have already negotiated a better deal, possibly beating these prices.
- daviding 13y agoIt must, but I assume once you get to a certain level of usage then an account manager / AWS gets you a slightly better than the publicly published deal. Is that the case? Also, I wonder if EC2 is up for a price tweak soon too? EDIT: Ah - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7475284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7475284
- driverdan 13y agoYes, the big users have negotiated lower prices that aren't listed on the site (confirmed to me by a very large S3 user).
- imroot 13y agoIf you have a direct-billed account, and are spending more than 1,000/month, you'll get an automatic price break. At my current $DAYJOB, we're billing around $15-20K/month (depending on traffic) in Amazon Web Services charges, and I believe we're getting somewhere between a 10 and 25 percent price break.
- Matsta 13y agoI remember reading a while ago that Imgur uses Edgecast as their CDN and not Cloudfront. See: http://readystate4.com/2012/08/14/great-post-on-imgurs-stack/ http://readystate4.com/2012/08/14/great-post-on-imgurs-stack... My guess is that they are only using AWS for serving the site and handling the uploads, resizing etc. and they are using another provider for the storage of the images (or they are just directly hosting everything with Edgecast and not using them in Pull mode). Like people have mentioned above, you can get a bunch of dedicated servers with heaps of storage for a fraction of the price of S3. You loose the flexibility and instant scaling, but the fact is these servers would be used more of a backup and would only be hit by Edgecast to upload them to the CDN.
- rschmitty 13y agoBenefit to them, doubt we'll ever see the savings in the case of Dropbox
- cmelbye 13y agoDropbox doesn't pay the rates you see on the S3 pricing page. They currently pay lower than $0.03/GB.
- antr 13y agoI hope we see a price reduction for the 100gb @ $10/month account, for something closer to $5/month
- herokusaki 13y agoIs Dropbox not having a $5/month plan a decision based on storage pricing?
- antr 13y agoA reduction in the cost of goods sold does incentivise businesses to apply price discrimination without a negative impact on margins - a $5/month service would target a big, untouched, monetisable market.
- cmelbye 13y agoI would be surprised if they didn't reduce their prices, there have been too many competitive storage pricing reductions recently for them not to.