The Cloud Gets Cheaper
This morning, Amazon announced new pricing for it’s data transfer inside Amazon Web Services. This is great news if you’re using Simple Storage Service (S3) or EC2 to serve content, as I do.
Through the end of this month, the pricing for data out and in has been:
$0.100 per GB - data transfer in
$0.180 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.160 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.130 per GB - data transfer out / month over 50 TB
Starting May 1, that will change to:
$0.100 per GB - data transfer in
$0.170 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.130 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.110 per GB - next 100 TB / month data transfer out
$0.100 per GB - data transfer out / month over 150 TB
Note: Data transfer “in” and “out” refers to transfer into and out of the Amazon service. Data transferred between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3-US, Amazon SimpleDB and Amazon SQS is free of charge (i.e., $0.00 per GB). Data transferred between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3-Europe will be charged at regular rates.
I don’t come anywhere near 10TB a month, so the pricing won’t affect me too terribly, but if you are pushing a ton of content out using S3, you should see significant savings. It’s interesting to watch these types of services come down in price. Soon, it will be a commodity.
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