Amazon Web Services Reduces S3 Service Cost

Probably, Amazon Web Services is one of the most popular "cloud" services. Many millions of customers are now using the services of Amazon - and naturally, many of them want to lower prices for services from Amazon. Recently, the company published a message in which it reported on the reduction of prices for the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Currently, the reduction in prices is valid only for those Amazon data centers located in the United States.

Probably, in this way the company is going to attract new customers for whom the price level for the company's services was high. Yes, we must not forget that now the competition in this sector is gradually increasing, so that the reduction in prices allows not only to attract new customers, but also to keep old ones. As for the reduction, it is not so significant, but for those who work with large data arrays, all this is relevant.
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According to the vice president of Amazon Web Services, savings for customers who store more than 50 terabytes of data in the cloud will be about 12%, and for those who store more than 500 terabytes of data, savings will be 13.5%. Actually, for such volumes - a very significant figure.



In addition to reducing the price, the company also launched a new service, AWS Storage Gateway, which is still in beta. This service allows you to safely upload your own data to the “cloud” from Amazon. This service, according to the company, will primarily interest those customers who want to quickly and securely download data from client applications to Amazon EC2. For example, a new service is useful for creating a copy of important data.

The service allows you to create separate sections of Amazon EBS, adding them to Amazon EC2. The price of a new service is quite high, but this is all based on corporate customers. So, for each channel in AWS Storage Gateway, the client will have to pay US $ 125 per month. True, there is a free period of testing the service, it is a whole two months.



Via pcworld