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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. Re:Plus $0.20 per Gb transferred!!! by OpticalPaul · · Score: 5, Interesting
    When Amazon lets me pay for the storage, and have other registered users pay the bandwidth charges (plus my profit) to access my content, then they'll have an interesting business. Unless Google beats them to it.

    As it is, online remote storage with ongoing upload, download, and storage fees hardly seems interesting.