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Amazon S3 Pricing
In this case, it's a pay as you go. It will cost you. It really looks like a professional service, not for the "gmail" crowd.
Pricing
* Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee, and no start-up cost.
* $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used.
* $0.20 per GB of data transferred.
(Amazon S3 is sold by Amazon Digital Services, Inc.)
So, let's take a really rough wild guess at typical usage:
If you calculate it out for a year assuming one gig of storage and 2 gig uploaded data writes, plus once to populate it, and downloaded on average one gig every month to read it (usage will obviously vary greatly and you don't usually read every bit, but some get read often), you get something like...
$2.60 / gig / year =
(12 x $0.15) storage + (3 x $0.20) write access + (12 x $0.20) read access
If you really wanted to use this to run a large, but not too high transaction business, maybe you have 1TB for less than $3,000 per year. Depending on your access and what services they provide, that seems like it could be a reasonable alternative for some people.
I didn't read through to check on backup or redundancy or disaster recovery services, but it would be natural to expect those as add-on services.
Anyone out there in charge of corporate storage, who can give us a feel for how the pricing looks?
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