Amazon has a bunch of services that are getting a lot of press now a days.
One of the services is called S3 - Simple Storage Solution (basically it's a big cloud server)
Here's the pricing info:
Quote:
Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee. Estimate your monthly bill using the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator.
We charge less where our costs are less, thus some prices vary across geographic regions and are based on the location of the bucket.
United States
Storage
$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
Data Transfer
$0.10 per GB - all data transfer in
$0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.16 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.13 per GB - data transfer out / month over 50 TB
Requests
$0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests
$0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests*
* No charge for delete requests
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How is this something to get excited about? Especially since it still goes down from time to time like a regular host.
All of the new tech startups planned to use this service as if it's the best thing ever created. What's the benefit to this?
I've been getting cheaper bandwidth than this since 2002. It only seems like a good idea for 2.0 companies that act as file hosts.