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Amazon's New Storage Service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-things-are-those-we-do-for-ourselves dept.

dlaur writes to tell us that today Amazon announced their Simple Storage Service (S3) allowing users to store unlimited amounts of data at $0.15 per GB paid monthly. From the article: "S3 was purportedly built to support both Amazon's own internal applications and the external users of the Amazon Web Services platform. That should be proper motivation to build a service that's fast and robust enough for mission critical use, yet flexible enough to support any storage task thrown at it."

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  1. How they are implementing it ... by DrJimbo · · Score: 5, Funny
    For each Gig of storage you use, Amazon gets a free Gmail account and uses that for storing your data.

    With virtually no cost for this storage, they can make a killing charging $0.15/Gig/month.

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  2. In other news... by dcapel · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Department of Homeland Security announced it has started a data hosting service. They encourage backing up of family pictures, journals, and irc chats, among other things. There is no monthly cost, but encrypters need not apply. When questioned on how this is a good use of taxpayers money, they simply replied that they wanted material to test their new indexing algorithms on.

    Apply now at database.dhs.gov/personal/suspects/index.php

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    1. Re:In other news... by grasshoppa · · Score: 3, Funny

      You just *know* somewhere, behind some desk, in a dusty office, a DHS agent is reading this going, "Damn, why didn't I think of that?!"

      I could see it now. All they'd need is a front company. Someone the public trusts. They could release this service...and..uh...

      Wait a second.

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  3. Can't wait to see... by DieByWire · · Score: 5, Funny

    Users with data like yours also had the following data...

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  4. I think I have it! by TechnoGuyRob · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Use $150,000,000 to request an exabyte of information for a month.
    2. Proceed to write internet worm that does a distributed upload of random garbage.
    3. Amazon is unable to satisfy your requests since no one has ever produced an exabyte.
    4. Demand Amazon pay you back damages with a multiple of your original investment.
    5. Profit!

    I rub my hands together in evil dictatorial glee. Mwahahahaha.

  5. Re:Storage? Oh wow! by lbft · · Score: 2, Funny

    Today's your lucky day.

    (Probably NSFW)

  6. I think it was Linus that said... by core+plexus · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" (1996)

    Quickplacer, the fastest robot in the world

  7. This reminds me.. by atarione · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where is the best place to get write-only media?

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  8. Re:Sign me up by menkhaura · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't need an envelope to send a DVD-R upstairs...

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