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Not to disagree, but what other options? Google and Rackspace charge the same. DreamObjects charges $0.05/GB in transfer, but still charges $0.05 for storage. Azure is still the same $0.12/GB.

I don't disagree that $0.12/GB could be considered expensive, but S3's competitors seem to be charging the same.



I actually use DigitalOcean as a cheap download server for my product. $5 gets you 1TB, then its $0.02/GB


How much bandwidth are you using? I'd wonder if they throttle you at some point. I'm sure they're not expecting people to use that whole TB.


I use multiple instances (20-40) of 1 TB bandwidth pretty regularly with no throttling as of yet.


Yeah I think they realize, like most vendors, that most people don't even come remotely close to using that much bandwidth. Even using them as a proxy for nextflix will probably just end up being 300G a month.




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