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2007-08-13 Michal Ludvig <michal@logix.cz>

* README: Updated Amazon S3 pricing overview


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Michal Ludvig authored on 2007/08/13 19:14:41
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 	* s3cmd, S3/Config.py, S3/S3.py: HTTPS support
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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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+$0.10 per GB - all data uploaded
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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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+$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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 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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 There is no minimum monthly contract or a setup fee. What