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The whole amazon pricing thing confuses me. Let's say I want to offer users faster uploads (not downloads) for things like profile images, album photos etc. And once uploaded I have a script on my server that retrieves the uploads and destroys them on the amazon S3 instance. I don't get charged for storage obviously because no files are actually being stored there but to transfer those files from amazon s3 to my own SAN would cost me $0.12 per GB if I am transferring up to 10GB per month. Is that right?
$1200 to transfer uploaded files from S3 to my SAN just to make the upload experience better for end users seems a bit steep. Or am I totally misunderstanding their pricing model?
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