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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. What they don't say... by David+Horn · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What they don't mention in the news item (and you have to trawl through 3 sites just to find the bloody thing), is that while Amazon charge $0.15 per GB used, they also charge $0.20 per GB transferred. So you actually get stung twice, or even four times if you backup weekly.

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