* README: Updated Amazon S3 pricing overview
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Pricing explained |
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-At the time of this writing the costs of using S3 are: |
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-1) US$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used. |
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-2) US$0.20 per GB of data transferred. |
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+At the time of this writing the costs of using S3 are (in USD): |
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+$0.15 per GB per month of storage space used |
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+plus |
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+$0.10 per GB - all data uploaded |
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+plus |
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+$0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data downloaded |
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+$0.16 per GB - next 40 TB / month data downloaded |
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+$0.13 per GB - data downloaded / month over 50 TB |
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+plus |
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+$0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests |
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+$0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests |
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If for instance on 1st of January you upload 2GB of |
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photos in JPEG from your holiday in New Zealand, at the |
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end of January you will be charged $0.30 for using 2GB of |
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-storage space for a month and $0.40 for transferring 2GB |
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-of data. That comes to $0.70 for a complete backup of your |
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-precious holiday pictures. |
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+storage space for a month, $0.20 for uploading 2GB |
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+of data, and a few cents for requests. |
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+That comes to slightly over $0.50 for a complete backup |
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+of your precious holiday pictures. |
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In February you don't touch it. Your data are still on S3 |
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servers so you pay $0.30 for those two gigabytes, but not |
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pictures and your friends download, say, 500MB of them. |
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As the files are owned by you, you are responsible for the |
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costs incurred. That means at the end of March you'll be |
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-charged $0.30 for storage plus $0.07 for the traffic |
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+charged $0.30 for storage plus $0.09 for the download traffic |
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generated by your friends. |
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There is no minimum monthly contract or a setup fee. What |