May 1, 2007

S3 Price Change

I got an email today from Amazon Web Services saying that the S3 (Simple Storage Service) prices will change on June first. Now S3 will be even cheaper:

Storage

$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used

Data Transfer

$0.10 per GB – all data uploaded

$0.18 per GB – first 10 TB / month data downloaded

$0.16 per GB – next 40 TB / month data downloaded

$0.13 per GB – data downloaded / month over 50 TB

Data transferred between Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 is free of charge

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

Storage and bandwidth size includes all file overhead

I really need to stop dragging my heels and start backing up my backup server to S3.

It looks like these prices will lower the overall cost for transferring large files (I’m not sure yet what “large” means in this context). Transferring a lot of small files will increase the overall cost.